...life changes in the instant.
Currently at home for the next eighteen hours. My uncle died completely out of the blue from a massive heart attack. Sunday night, he was out to dinner, celebrating my cousin's match at med school residency. Monday morning, I got a text letting me know he was dead. Tomorrow, we celebrate his life; my mom's picking up the sandwiches for after his service. And then, that's it. It's all over. He's gone. We'll all press on, though with another grim reminder that you never know when your number will get called and your time is up.
Joan Didion gets it right and helps me make a little sense out of all of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25didion.html?pagewanted=all
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