I’m gonna be in Seattle in about 26 hours. My depression has prevented me from packing or being at all excited but GODDAMMIT WE ARE GOING TO SEATTLE AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A DAMN GOOD TIME.
’The site of this burial is called a landfill. The site of the dead buried in boxes is called a cemetery. In both cases the ground is being filled. A dead body in a box can be lowered into the ground using heavy equipment, but we do not consider it trash. When the dead are not in boxes and there is a man-made mountain of them we use heavy equipment to bury them together, like trash. It is estimated that everywhere we walk we are walking on a piece of trash and the hard, insoluble remains of the dead. Whatever the case, the dead and the garbage are together in the ground where we cannot see them, for we do not relish the sight or smell of them. If we did not go about our burying, we would be in danger of being overcome.’
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we enter another.”
My Six-Word Memoir
Writing: only place I’ve found peace.
(What’s your six-word memoir?)