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Pacific Spirit Park, Vancouver, BC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

I want life to teach me to become better acquainted with death.<\/p>\n

During the more strict days of quarantine, I would go for a walk every day in the Mountain View Cemetery. I watched the cherry blossoms bloom and then fade.<\/p>\n

I watched the tulips, irises and lilies blossom and then fade. But this undeniable beauty was foregrounded by deep anxiety and fear about the ravages of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

There are some headstones in the Mountain View Cemetery with a name and a birth date. The date of death is still not etched into the stone.<\/p>\n

This got me thinking.<\/p>\n

What if when we were born we received a grave stone and a plot in the cemetery? What if every year on our birthdays we took a pilgrimage to our graves? Would we learn something? Would we be better prepared for death when it came?<\/p>\n

A tree in the forest is born and dies in the very same place.<\/p>\n

I marvel at that simplicity, that certainty.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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