Life and Death...

This post will not be one on creativity...I just have had a tough weekend...my aunt passed away from cancer ...this is the first close death in the family since my brother in law commited suicide...I suppose as you get older, more people cross back over the rainbow bridge...do you ever get used to it? I think of Harry Potter when in the stories he could see things only because he has seen death in the face...other characters could also...I have seen death, I was with my father in law when he died...it was very peaceful....I only hope it was as peaceful for my aunt...she was given only a couple months to live a week ago and I guess it happened sooner..this has been the pattern in the people in my life who have died from cancer..they find out they have a finite time left and die sooner...my mother also found a cyst in her breast...thankfully it is not cancerous but now she has to go in every 6 months to get it checked...I am starting to reach middle age...it is strange...my children are getting older...I now have a teenager and yet the elders in my family are starting to fade out...needless to say , I haven't felt creative at all these past couple days...although I feel a small poem circulating in the back of my mind for my dear aunt Emily...I will share it when it comes out..