"Lately my friends' parents keep dying, and I noticed the newly shuttered Bed Bath & Beyond next to Buy Buy Baby has reopened as a Halloween City, highlighting how retail holidays invade sacred time, often too soon."
"Mortality isn't the same as death but rather an awareness that time itself is sacred; stepping over a dead gull serves as a reminder of this reality."
"My sister, a rabbi, prepares a body for burial through tahara – a ritual that emphasizes the importance of gentle care and community awareness in approaching death."
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