Dear Kiwi

Strange start to the day today. It is one of those types of days that reminds you of the duality of life. How can one celebrate someone’s life when someone you’ve grown to adore lost theirs on the same day? Existence is so strange and so fleeting. Both events are a reminder of just how close we actually are to the end of the story. You celebrate one because we are still here. The other fills you with shock, anger at the unfairness of it all, and mourning. What do you mean they are gone? Them? With all the other people creating misery in the world walking around freely? Our selfishness inevitably shows because of the black hole created by their new absence. Another year, but without their song in your life. We thought we had more time. I was hoping for at least another 40 years of music and art. Wishful thinking, I know. That is love, though.

Strange day today. A reminder to slow down and truly absorb when a Rare Bird graces you with their song.