Category Archives: Death & Dying

Easing Over

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It is never easy to let go, to know that the last conversation upon this earth has been had. Continue reading →

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Witness in the Storm

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Doc Arnett

Somewhere in the storm, lightning flashed, again and again and again, sending great surges of diffuse light, muffled and muted by the layers of rain and cloud. Continue reading →

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Hard Times

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Doc Arnett

I look at him and see other old men that I loved. Men with hard hands and soft voices, men gentled by memory. Continue reading →

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Look Over There

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Doc Arnett

When we are made no longer subject to the nuances of this world and its ways and when all that causes death and decay has been done away, in that Day, we will know fully the joy that we have only tasted, that which stays.
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Hairnets & Plastic Gloves

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It is the raw eloquence of sincere actions that touches the hearts of others.
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Hard Times

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Doc Arnett

There’s a common saying that we don’t know what we’d do until we’re put into a particular situation. Perhaps we might also say that we don’t know what we would refuse to do, either. Continue reading →

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Parting Words

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Doc Arnett

When I stood beside his hospital bed in the pre-dawn hours of that March morning, I fully expected that to be my last time with him. Continue reading →

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The Orphan Goes Berry Pickin’

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Doc Arnett

Somehow, I have stepped into another place, another time. A place and time that have always been and yet have never been before. Continue reading →

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Orphan Reunion

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Doc Arnett

I stand and smile for a moment, thinking that finally Dad and Rueben can be together for more than just the few hours they shared on an April day, more than seventy years ago. Finally, both of them can be with their fathers in that place where there are no orphans. Continue reading →

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A Good Planting

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Doc Arnett

A few of us linger for a while,
near the grave,
waiting in the shade of hickory and oak,
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