Statistically I’ve already lived about half of my life. Have I even been paying attention to how fast time is flying by?

We feel pain even when we know death is coming and inevitable and accept it. We fear the separation. We can only pray for the strength to cope and hold onto those around us to strengthen them and gain strength from them.

A piece describing our Afterlife and Beforelife.

That glimpse of another world. How to,howto.

Matthew 6:19-21 (19)“Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal. (20) Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal. (21) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Between the cradle and the grave, everything that we do and expect in life is powered by reality.

What are the realistic prospects of anyone ever solving the riddle of eternal life, and would it be worth it if they did?

This is a discussion of the controlling metaphor in Emily Dickinson’s poem "Because I Could not Stop for Death". This metaphor is related to other figurative language, including other metaphors, in the poem, to the structure of the poem, and to the ideas and emotions that the poem is expressing.

This is a discussion on prosody in Emily Dickinson’s poem "Because I Could not Stop for Death". Scanned in order to give a sense of the rhythm and rhyme and where they deviate. This issues are related to the issues of prosody, to the type of poem (ballad); to the structure or pattern of the poem; and to the ideas or emotions that the poem is expressing.

The classical Narcissus myth, via Ovid’s version, is the embryonic form of contemporary notions which lend its name to the psychological syndrome, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NDP) as well as the psychic development terminologies which we (think we) ‘understand’ today. Most of these categories of behaviour come to us from the speculative discourse of Psychoanalysis which is steeped in metaphorical analogy which does not unpack under close investigation. This has not deterred behavioural scientists from appropriating the term for trait-based diagnosis of problematic personality types. It is the normal, or sub-clinical aspects of narcissism which are of importance to the life of an individual in a social interactive situation that depends on an interpretation of context which is tied to convention and socially acceptable meanings.