I'm currently in Sacramento, California sitting with a friend of mine
whose mother is dying. Death is a reflection of life. A friend sent me
an article awhile ago and the title was something like . . . we are
born towards dying. Here is the link.

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2009/01/born-toward-dying

Very thoughtful. I'm not religious in any conventional sense. I like
to think I live an ethical life but then again so did Uncle Joe Stalin.

So I sit shiva with my friend. His mom closer to death then life but
comfortable, loved and pain free. The things we endure as humans! How
lucky I am and it is just enough to have clean water, food and
shelter, to not be hunted or tortured or have my land and business
surrounded by checkpoints and walls.

An honor to sit with my friend and his dying mum, his girlfriend and
simply be together in death and in life.