Home movies

This weekend I watched some home movies from my childhood. It was the first time I'd watched them since my Dad died. Seeing him in those often blurry images with the washed out colors reminded me of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five." It is in this book that we learn how those who have died are still alive, in the past. If our minds are open enough, we can still visit those times. So, for Vonnegut, the response to death is not grief, anger or even guilt, but the simple "So it goes." Just another point on the timeline of our lives.