A colleague of mine passed away last night. She was older, struggled with her health - so in some ways her passing was expected, in some ways unexpected.
When death happens, I find that I envy the Buddhists. For the most part, they don't draw a strict line between those that are dead and those that are alive like we in the West tend to. Instead, death and life are partners - just like your left hand and your right hand - one cannot exist without the other. As I type now using both my hands in tandem, so do the worlds of life and death work in tandem.
Looking at death that way, it feels far less dramatic. Mourning is appropriate, and of course welcome, but the road to acceptance seems much shorter and her passing more peaceful.
So let this be my little cyber-prayer: Peace to her in her passing, and peace to those whose lives she touched in ways she did know and ways she did not know. May we remember that she remains as much our partner today, as she was in the lifetime she shared with us before. Amen.
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