my grandfather. death hasn't really touched my life- I know the rarity of having not really been affected by death other than pets is a rare luxury yet I feel completely unprepared for it now. about 6 weeks ago, in an almost literary foreshadowing of hard things to come, I wrote a latin prayer on my white board at work: REQUIEM aeternam dona ei eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei eis. … [Read more...]