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Friday, March 24, 2006
8:48 AM
For my Canadian friend Atanga who lost his kid brother Umana yesterday from a train crash in Quebec, Canada.
water, rain, water.
that is the day today
tomorrow it will freeze
and be shiny, hard, cold.
where are we?
why?
how do these things happen?
why is the world filled with beauty,
when this beauty is laced with such harsh pain?
so many questions with impossible, unsatisfactory answers.
atanga,
i think of you today and cry.
for you, for your brother, for the ice that entraps most of us someplace,
usually our hearts.
death is treated in the west with obscurity and nonchalance.
what's missed is the anguish, loss, nostalgia, soul chaos.
life calamaties such as these have consuming power
while they hurt, teach, confound.
the future may seem grim and abandoned,
with you stuck in an old desolate house.
but you, atanga,
are a talented man with love and creation in your heart.
peace will find you and be caring of your delicate feelings
steps will be small but thoughtful from here
with love,
from julia
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