Long Live the Queen...

Death. It's the Big Kahuna. The Big Enchilada. The Big Conundrum. Nature shows us that it is natural, just another part of the process of life. But, for us Human Beings it is a major conundrum. We are conscious, painfully aware of our inevitable "road to oblivion," life, that substance that appears to us to be so precious, is also quite limited. Here but for a brief time and then vanished, vanquished, gone.  "A Candle in the Wind." Or maybe better to think, we are transformed into something we know not what. Death, right, it happens to everyone, so in that way we truly are equal; Kings, Queens (born into the roles), Celebrities, Rich, Poor, the Young, the Old, the Great In-Between. The death of anyone diminishes us all, shows us the way of life and living. But maybe also we can take heart? Yes, another one gone, that is the way of life, but what to do? Carry on the best we can. Enjoy the moment, enjoy the day, do what we can to fill our hearts, our heads, our souls with joy and love, embrace a fierce aliveness. Alive, Aware, Awake. Nothing is certain, nothing is given, all is up for grabs in the moment, which can snatched away in the blink of an eye. The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen.