Star Power

On the day that our family says goodbye to a loved one, let me share with you a quote from this beautiful book I just finished. It's about death and dying but mostly it's about recognizing that you are living- up until the very moment that you are not. 

“Do you know,’ she said slowly, ‘that the stars that we see the clearest are already dead?’ ‘Well, that’s depressing.’ I took my hand from hers. ‘No,’ she said gently, linking her arm through mine, ‘it’s not depressing, it’s beautiful. They’ve been gone for who knows how long, but we can still see them. They live on.’ They live on.”