A death will ground us – it forces us to focus on what is immediately before us like nothing else.
It also tears away any pretense so that all we can be is real. I think that's what I loved about working for hospice. When people are dying and when they're grieving the loss of someone they love, there simply is no energy for being anything other than in the present moment with all that they are. To be allowed to meet them in that place is quite an honor, and not one I ever take lightly.
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