The young fellow above is about to become a new Dad. And I suspect that means that I will soon become a Grand Pa.
Shocking to think of it. One the one hand there is a huge fantastic WOW!! Congrats!! All my love to the 3 of you!! form of joyous response. There follows a period of reflection, a working back through memory. A reliving of the past.
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This is an image of me not being there. I am gone. Totally gone. This strange agglomeration of carbon and oxygen and hydrogen is all gone, the atoms dispersed, the bubbling chemical soup that gives rise to feeling, sensation, memory, emotion, is stilled.
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Wipe out! A few seconds after the above image was captured, the surfer disappeared in a cloud of angry foam. Shortly after I completed work on the image, one of my piles of tottering paper let go. There was a minor earthquake as it collapsed and a landslide of papers spilled out across the base of the stairs. I have been trying to clean up and organize. Hence the greater mess.
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