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Good evening, darlings. A quick note from me and David Sedaris.
Is this a way to tell you he wrote me a lovely postcard made from flash cards for butchers () and suggested I would have been the most wonderful final conversation on earth in the case of his death? It is.
But also, I like his final suggestion better: “Let’s both live.”
Dears, since we find ourselves breathing tonight, alive in our bodies and minds, let’s just live. We may as well, right? We may as well laugh while we can, throw our arms around the people we adore and hug them well past their comfort level while we can do that too. Might as well tell folks that we love them, we appreciate them, we’re sorry, we were wrong, we see them, we need them, we think they are so fantastic that it almost makes us freak out.
While we are at it, this living bit, we may as well get on with the business of risking it all for love, for hope, for the sneaking suspicion that magic is just around the corner. Sure, we could play it safe and coy and distant, but what if we didn’t? What if we lived instead and stumbled upon outrageous happiness? Wouldn’t that have been terrible to miss?
In this living experiment, we could say yes. What a dreamy word when well placed. A million gorgeous things have happened on the other side of a yes.
Living means we can also lay some heavy things down; just choose to do it. Unhook the chain and let it drop. Decide to be free. Maybe this means forgiveness. Maybe it just means moving on because life is short and we have the least amount of days left than we’ve ever had.
So let us live while we can. While blood courses through our veins and songs are still being written and life begs to be celebrated. We get no days back but every single one from here on is ours for the taking.
Love,
David and Jen
Great statement..
