Everyone Dies

My brother is dead
My father is dead
My mother is dead
Some of my uncles are dead
Some of my aunts are dead
My grandparents are dead
Everyone before them is dead

This meditation from Be Generous by David Marell has been excerpted with permission. To order Be Generous, contact Red Wheel, Weiser and Conari Press at (800) 423-7087, or click here to purchase through Powells.com.

This article appears in January 2004.

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