FREE TO BE.

YOU.

WOODEN CHAIR- ANGUS STONE.

In another place
In another time
In another phase
In another line
In another heart
In another world
In another girl
We were feeling fine
We were in love

We were in love

In your father's tears
In all your mothers pain
In all the world's fear
We'd be the same
In another world
In another time
In another girl
We were feeling fine
We were in love
We were in love

NOW.

"The present you ignore eventually becomes the past you cling to."

WHEN I DIE, PLEASE!

"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy…, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him/her that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let him/her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her/his eyes, that those photons created within her/him constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly.

"

 —  Aaron Freeman, NPR  

SING NOW.

"A song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it."
— Sarah Dessen

CELEBRATE.

"Because we are all part of a great party and it's ongoing and it's always."

NO THANKS.

"If you're gonna leave, I wish you'd just leave. Why do you keep coming back if you're not going to stay? Because even when you're gone, you're never really gone. I won't get over it if you keep coming back. Losing you once was hard enough. And now you're here again and everything's coming back."
— Brodi Ashton, Everneath

LAY ME DOWN.

LOVE.

You know what it's like to fall in love: you touch someone and that's it.

- Leonard Bernstein