Just Be Kind

"You're going to die, too! Someday. And how will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand is where I fall."

~ Doctor Who

Watching the Clock

"As conscious human beings, we know we die, and we therefore know our clock ends on, some level. So time just seems foundational. And I think a lot of the gymnastics that we do as human beings has to do with our relationship to the clock, or lack of a relationship to the clock. We squander time until it’s too late, et cetera. I love looking at the building blocks, the raw material, the irreducibles."

~ B.J. Miller

Practice in Life, Clarity, Notice Flow, GoneDaron LarsonFebruary 2, 2016On Being, B.J. Miller, death, time, imagination, suffering, health care, past, future, sensesComment

The Past Alive

a game we played

so many times
I finally taught my sons,

not knowing what it was,
until too late, I’d done.

~ Patrick Phillips

Daron LarsonJanuary 16, 2016Patrick Phillips, poetry, childhood, growing up, parenting, power, death, memento moriComment

If You Embrace It, It Will Teach You

"Healing comes in many guises. We're healed by just the touch of a friend. We're healed by the hug of a child. And healing does not imply that your life is suddenly going to lose all of the struggle, all of the challenge. What it does instead is it strengthens us for what is next. But to be open to healing means to be vulnerable. And I think if you look at me, you know I'm what they would call a vulnerable adult. The cat doesn't even listen to me here. I have no real sense of control anymore."

~ Bruce Kramer

Equanimity, Practice in LifeDaron LarsonApril 25, 2015Bruce Kramer, life, death, body, illness, medicine, On Being, frustration, struggle, suffering, yoga, relationshipsComment

Why Not Get Started

I know, you never intended to be in this world.
But you're in it all the same.

So why not get started immediately.

~ Mary Oliver

Practice in LifeDaron LarsonFebruary 7, 2015Mary Oliver, poetry, belonging, life, death, mortality, time, memento moriComment

This Primal Commitment

What happens when, just for a moment, we stay with our pain, our fear, our doubt, our discomfort, our grief, our broken heart, even our numbness, without trying to change it, or fix it, or numb ourselves to it, or get rid of it in any way? What happens when, even when we feel like leaving, abandoning the moment for the promise of a future salvation, we stay, sitting with the raw, unfiltered, boundlessly alive life-energy that is simply trying to express right now?

~ Jeff Foster

Feel In, Clarity, Equanimity, Practice in LifeDaron LarsonNovember 18, 2014Jeff Foster, suffering, emotions, feeling, life, resistance, uncertainty, grief, death, doubt, discomfortComment

No Less Real

"So much of what we live goes on inside–"

Daron LarsonNovember 1, 2014Dana Gioia, grief, death, memory, communication, Day of the Dead, secrecy, yearning, self/other, riskComment

Departure Lounge

"Truth clears away / So many souvenirs. The shelves come clean." ~ Clive James

Equanimity, See In, Feel In, GoneDaron LarsonSeptember 22, 2014poetry, Clive James, George Szirtes, death, illness, gone, life, home, waiting, uncertainty, health careComment

Life after Death

"When I go, I hope someone grabs hold of me. But I have to promise I’m grabbing hold of who's gone before." ~ Dario Robleto

Daron LarsonJuly 28, 2014memory, On Being, death, grief, heaven, time, family, history, gone, art, artists, poetry, sculptureComment

Poetry Can Help Us Live with Death

Daron LarsonJune 9, 2014Stephen Burt, TED, art, death, grief, language, poetry, wordsComment

The Story Begins to Live and Breathe

Daron LarsonApril 20, 2014Adyashanti, Christianity, Jesus, death, ego, metaphor, perspective, rebirth, self, transformation, truth, waking upComment

Pain and Response to Pain Teaches Understanding

"The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are."

~ Sherwin Nuland

Daron LarsonMarch 10, 2014Sherwin Nuland, body, compassion, connection, death, feelings, life, love, medicine, obituary, pain, self/otherComment

It is Enough

Daron LarsonJanuary 23, 2014Anne Alexander Bingham, death, impermanence, life, nature, poetryComment

Let Me Die Living

Daron LarsonJanuary 20, 2014Jeff Foster, acceptance, complete experience, death, engaged, equanimity, lifeComment

There is Always a Gust of Wind Somewhere

"The day my grandfather passed away there was the strongest wind,
I could feel his gentle hands blowing away from me.
I knew then they were off to find someone
who needed them more than I did.
On average 1.8 people on earth die every second.
There is always a gust of wind somewhere."

~ Michael Lee

Daron LarsonDecember 13, 2013Guante, Michael Lee, death, grief, identity, memory, poetry, self, self/other, spoken-wordComment

Limitations and Richness of Experience

Daron LarsonSeptember 23, 2013Lin Yutang, aging, autumn, complete experience, constraints, death, life, paradox, seasonsComment

Hey! Watch This.

"Look, mine is not a unique situation. Everybody loses ability — everybody loses ability as they age. If you're lucky, this happens over the course of a few decades."

~ David Rakoff

Daron LarsonJuly 7, 2013David Rakoff, beauty, dance, death, dream, gone, illness, life, wonder, writersComment

The Living and the Dead

Daron LarsonJune 26, 2013Dana Levy, art, death, film, liberation, life, prison, rebirth, sleepComment

Changing The World

Daron LarsonMay 29, 2013Joss Whedon, change, commencement, death, directors, inspiration, life, impermanenceComment

What It Means To Love You After You Are Dead

Daron LarsonMarch 21, 2013Richard Feynman, death, feelings, grief, love, relationships, romanceComment

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