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Alexander Lovell, PhD's avatar

Today, I chose to listen to your essay. Very poignant. Beautiful.

This line struck me: "That’s when I noticed that death lives inside us all, and it calls when it chooses to."

Followed up by: "And, if we are fortunate, we will do the same again tomorrow."

While we have some influence on our health and well-being, we truly don't have much choice when death chooses to reach out to us. We are so fortunate to rise again each day and live. I continue to learn from both you and Sarah. I continue to integrate personal learnings when I see you put them into practice.

This was a beautiful essay. One I'm so glad to have read today.

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

I welled up over and over again reading this essay. It is so easy to forget about our proximity to death, each of us, though some are closer to it than others. To love a child who is in the latter group is the hardest,bravest, most beautiful thing. To find the words to convey that, right in the midst of the rawness, is something else altogether. I am deeply grateful for the generosity of your storytelling, and the thin space it creates between us. Thank you, Jeannie. 💙

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