Pages 20 and 21 of Chloe

“Want to see a movie tonight?” Bruce asked.
“Sure. Let’s go see the new Korean movie that won four Oscars!” Chloe said excitedly.
“Parasite? Awesome. I’ll pick you up at 7.”
I’ve chosen the font and set the text for my third book. It just needs some tweaking here and there, but I’m almost ready to do the illustrations! The goal with this one is experimental: write about “adult” issues in a children’s book style.
She took time off from work and went to the other side of the reef when Liz the Leafy Seadragon needed help moving her mother’s things.
I thought I had Byron Katie’s philosophy on death mastered. Consider death differently. Let go of stressful thoughts. It’s egoic to want someone to still be alive if they died. No one dies “too soon.” Resisting reality only causes pain. Yes, I get that.
But then a very good friend passed away today and I can’t help but cry and feel the loss of his physical presence. Someone who gave so much of himself is now gone. How to reconcile this?
Tomorrow is a new day. His children and his wife will feel his absence. We all will. As Katie says, life is a recycling circuit. Nothing happens too soon. Everything happens “just right” and I must trust this is true, even though it doesn’t feel that way right now.