Reflections

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My body language and the tenor of my conversations change as death draws near.  </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The parents understand and stay close. </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Closeness at the end helps.  </em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Some events feel significant. They expose a fundamental truth.  </span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Spirituality isn't intellectual. It's a feeling.  </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This feeling confirms the truth and resonates deeply and clearly;  </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>there's no doubt.  </em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These experiences act as turning points and become stories.  </span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What the ancients call the soul  </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is where spirituality resides in the brain.  </em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The narratives mature over time and help us make sense of life.  </span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When people realize it's our similarities that bind us together  </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>perhaps spirituality will unite us. </em></p><p> </p>