24: Death in the Everyday: Nurse Logs, Big Thief, Immortality

Another episode of the mini series, Death in the Everyday!

I share a beloved poem, Life After Death, by Laura Gilpin (posted below)

A favorite song, Change by Big Thief.

And talk about my reactions to new research promoting the possibility of immortality.

These things I know:
How the living go on living
and how the dead go on living with them
so that in a forest
even a dead tree casts a shadow
and the leaves fall one by one
and the branches break in the wind
and the bark peels off slowly
and the trunk cracks
and the rain seeps in through the cracks
and the trunk falls to the ground
and the moss covers it
and in the spring the rabbits find it
and build their nest
inside the dead tree
so that nothing is wasted in nature
or in love.

-Laura Gilpin

Piano music by Jeff Buckingham

Interlude from Free Music Archive: Scott Holmes, Wildflowers