When the Circle Ends

Do we know when we’re about to die?

photo courtesy of Emily Cradduck (author), taken by my father, Brad Cradduck. date unknown.

“In the midst of life we are in death.”

The thirtieth: the date of my birth, but not yet deemed the date of my death. Also the thirtieth: the date of my father’s birth, but not that of his death. This, at least, I can say for certain. The date of his death was the seventh, thirty-four years to the date of my…