Today's Song: So Contagious by Acceptance

If you haven't heard of Acceptance, I demand that you check them out, they are amazing. And "So Contagious" is an awesome song.

Well today, I wanted to post a poem that I came across about a year ago while listening to one of the "Peyton's Podcasts" (if you don't know what that is, shame on you). The words really spoke to me, I have lost people in the past, like most of us have. I basically grew up with people dying around me, I think I went to my first funeral at the age of almost 2.

So anyway, the poem that was in the podcast helps to see death a different way, and I'm glad I could hear it. It took me about an hour to type this out, I wanted other people to know about it.

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, " There! She is gone!" Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large and mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and she is just as able to bear her load of living frate to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, There! She is gone! there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, " Here she comes!" And that, is dying.