Life and half-life

Art by Mom
Sister S photo

Sisters S and K are here this weekend, and it is great. They got Mom in the pool yesterday and have kept her busy. I'm knee-deep in organizing her tax documents, which always takes longer than it should.

I mentioned a post or two ago our friend Jack, the uncle of the supreme court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. Just a few days later, Jack died suddenly in his apartment. He was 85. A very accomplished man, gracious, kind and in remarkably good health. I always looked forward to talking to him.  Jack's wife is there with Alzheimer's, and while she's been told that Jack died, it's hard to know if she gets it. The idea that she would outlast him defies sense.

I think that, to go that way, fully alive, then done, is so much better than these long slow declines into half-life that are everywhere present at Mom's place. But I guess you don't get to choose.

Here's Jack's obit: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?pid=184185842

We're going to his funeral this afternoon.

The harbor mouth