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Richard E. Grant

Happy Place

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How to Live in the Moment - I'm a Buddhist and I've Been Through a Lot of It and I Think It's a Good Thing to Live in the Now

My husband's mum died completely out of the blue completely unexpected and I think you don't ever really get over that. She was hilarious because she said everybody we know is going to die so it just happens to be my turn now. It's a very Buddhist concept to go we're all you know in a lot of Buddhist temples they have a either a skeleton or something that represents death when you walk into them. You'll stand at the door and then that person goes away and that's when you fall apart and you're on your own. The skitsoid part of having to think about her funeral arrangements while she was alive is how can you possibly even conceive of that funeral shopping

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