[foxyshaman]

I am at a loss to figure out how to deal with so many deaths in my life. In the last three weeks I have attended three funerals & missed two. And even tho' the NDP leader had NOTHING to do with me, for some reason his death has touched me very deeply. I am sad. I cried when I heard it on the Radio early Monday AM.

He penned a two page letter the day before he died and this is how he ended it:

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."

So many changes. So many losses. So many new roads. So many doors closing. Breathe in grief, breathe out gratitude.