Saturday, October 5, 2019

Life gets busy, death happens anyway

After my vacation hiatus I got into a supercharged work term... the Fall is notoriously a busy time for fundraisers, but I am also covering a paternity leave for my boss at the moment so I have felt bogged down and generally un-inspired.

This being said, as much as I am focusing on staying afloat, the need for death education keeps popping up: a colleague was invited to say goodbye before a beloved donor engaged with MAID, a donor/alumnus-produced play takes place at a funeral/wake in Newfoundland (check out "No Change In The Weather"), and a few new enquiries for help with gifts in donor's estates plans... the point is, no matter how busy life gets, no matter how overwhelmed we may feel... death doesn't care.

Death happens. We can't put it off like I have been putting off my return to blogging. It happens. Life and death goes on...

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