I remember, back around the turn of the century, hearing Wear Sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann. At the time, it felt clever. Insightful, even. I was probably too young to fully understand what it meant, though I had a vague sense…
My mortality is something I have always struggled with, but I did not fully understand it until my mother’s father passed away four years ago, just before the birth of my daughter. His death hit me profoundly. He was the…