live your ‘wild & precious life’
My daughter will not read my blog. Not yet. Very young and wise, she tells me that because we are here for but the briefest sojourn, her plan is to save my random musings. When I am gone, she will open the jar. Her beautiful strategy to counter the missing of people likely to go before her, reminds me of the frail yet fervent 83-year old Maurice Sendak‘s final interview. Illustrated in this animated film by Christoph Niemann, is the purest expression of mortality I have ever heard, Sendak’s impassioned entreaty:
Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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9 Comments
Keith Watterson
This is a great post. God bless Sophie, and that interview is one of the most moving things I’ve ever heard.
Editor
Yes. If your soul is ever in need of sustenance, just take five minutes and listen to it. So beautiful.
Pam
Perhaps the challenge is teach our children when they are young to see the world as Maurice Sendek’s sees his near its end. In doing so we very well might create a synergistic shift in the Universe (or at least for a few), and wouldn’t that be worthwhile?
betty watterson
Yvonne I have enjoyed these blogs so much, You are blessed with a talent for writing. I love and enjoy every word you write. God bless you. Sophie has such a wise head on her shoulders.
Much love xxxxx
Editor
Well … she takes after her grandmother, of course.
Love you, ma
xoxoxo
jbaird
Beautiful advice. As as I contemplate mortality I will try to do that more and more: live my life, from scan to clear scan, until I am called home. xox
Editor
Oh, Jan
It is just so good to see that little picture of you again. I have thought about you so often, especially in recent weeks. I am glad to hear your weekly treatments are over. How are you feeling today?
The Accidental Amazon
Dear, dear Maurice. I remember listening to this whole interview. Did you see that there is a new posthumous book by him, called “My Brother’s Book” — here it is: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/05/my-brothers-book-maurice-sendak/
Perhaps now would be the perfect time for me to read it. xoxo, Kathi
Editor
Oh, I missed that, Kathi. I’ll have to get it. Did you ever read the story he told about how he had sent a letter to a little boy who had read his books and the little boy ate the letter! Of course Maurice thought it was the ultimate compliment 🙂
Yes. I think it would be the perfect time for you to read it. Me too.
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