One of my favourite films is The Truman Show. It tells the story of a young man’s growing realisation that his whole life has been scripted, and he is in fact the unwitting star of a reality television show about his own life. When the creator of the show, Christof, is asked in an interview... Continue Reading →
Before You Drew Breath
Before you ever drew breath, death was at work, shaping you. The universe is a web of relationships in a process of becoming. And in this process, life and death are not opposites. Death is not simply something that happens when life fails; the disturbing reality is that at a biological level, death is one... Continue Reading →
On Eddies, Becoming and the Stories We Tell About Death
It is just over a year now since Dad passed. Time does not heal. All it does is provide more opportunities to keep busy and temporarily forget. But lately I have been wrestling with the concept of death, trying to make sense of a world where one moment you can be here, and then things... Continue Reading →