(June 2017) St. Louis, USA

Sold to S. Cossey

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"Make peace with living.

It's part of the deal we made."

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These lines found (separately) in the American classic Tuesdays with Morrie, a book about a wise and wonderful old professor who makes peace with his ALS-hastened death. 

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To accompany this piece, an excerpt from a book I hold dear like a bible, Taschen's Book of Symbols:

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[Bone] suggests that something 'hard' within psychic life happily endures even when the body dies. Since human and animal flesh decays rather quickly after death, leaving the bones behind, bone is a tangible reminder of the loss of life and at the same time alludes to something substantive that transcends the death of the daily flesh. 

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