heart-ache

This hyphenated linguistic shortcut addresses a particular embodied response to life: it headlines the days and the human encounters that ensue on the ground for this brief visit to Boulder for Bridget’s ‘Celebration of Life’. Following the aching are the inspirations of conversation with the living, old and many seldom-seen friends, that help ease the heart. The oscillation between these two conditions shreds future and past into a pile of random memories sitting directly, forefront, in the lap of the present. Together we, the living, help each other reconstruct some meaning and bring an order to the shared memories, and prepare for the unknown future.