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Book Quotes: In Lieu of Flowers
In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living by Nancy Cobb
I've been completely charmed and spiritually boosted by this slim little volume that I found in the death and dying section of Myopic. I wanted to highlight passages and write in the margins and transfer at least a tenth of it full-form into my Book of Shadows. Come to find, in one throw-away comment towards the end, that the author is a pagan. It is delightful and comforting--treating death as the everyday, everyman experience that it is and celebrating the love that continues on between those who die and those who are left behind.
I think everyone I know should read this. It is also the perfect book as a resource for those interested in priestessing through transition.
A few quotes I wanted, particularly, to share:
"Write as if you were dying. At the same time, write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case." Annie Dillard. (Cobb 84).
"At what point and for how long our lives intersect is far less important than what transpires when they do." (Cobb 110)
And finally, a longer quote from a professor of divinity at Oxford University that I would want read at my own memorial service, if you should ever have the opportunity:
Death is nothing at all--I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way you always used. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without the ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant...there is absolutely unbroken continuity. I am waiting for you--somewhere near just around the corner.
All is well. -Henry Scott Holland (Cobb 55).
I've been completely charmed and spiritually boosted by this slim little volume that I found in the death and dying section of Myopic. I wanted to highlight passages and write in the margins and transfer at least a tenth of it full-form into my Book of Shadows. Come to find, in one throw-away comment towards the end, that the author is a pagan. It is delightful and comforting--treating death as the everyday, everyman experience that it is and celebrating the love that continues on between those who die and those who are left behind.
I think everyone I know should read this. It is also the perfect book as a resource for those interested in priestessing through transition.
A few quotes I wanted, particularly, to share:
"Write as if you were dying. At the same time, write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case." Annie Dillard. (Cobb 84).
"At what point and for how long our lives intersect is far less important than what transpires when they do." (Cobb 110)
And finally, a longer quote from a professor of divinity at Oxford University that I would want read at my own memorial service, if you should ever have the opportunity:
All is well.