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Fixing stuff, myself included…

Moving?

I stayed with my parents in their retirement community condo last night. Standing out in the parking lot smoking (no you can’t smoke here) this morning, I saw a large, yellow moving van pull up. My first thought was, are they moving in, or moving out? But, then I realized people only move in here. If the person that lived here is moving out, it’s not under their own power, because the living has stopped. The move outs are conducted by loved ones and friends.

You are so morbid.

No not really, I’m just saying/seeing how it is; although it’s true I do tend to notice things about dying.

So, I’m standing there finishing my cigarette scanning the side of the truck, and the advertising screams out “Moving by Sudden Death,” but then just as my eyes are popping out of my head, I see that it really says, “Moving by Suddath.”

See you are morbid.

What does sudden death mean? Sudden means unexpectedly, or unforeseen. We have a syndrome called sudden death syndrome in infants and young adults meaning death unexpectedly in otherwise healthy individuals. In some way all death is unexpected. Yes, we all know the saying about “…death and taxes,” but even when we’ve been though the experience of losing someone we love, we forget. Maybe getting older increases our awareness of it’s inevitability. My parents are more aware of it, but mostly I don’t want to see. Sometimes I see it when I don’t want to, like this morning. My unconscious mind showing me the last horizon: yours, mine and their’s.

“Designated driver, on the information highway.”