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A Meditation on Endings

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Collecting Art, take a look How Do You Meet Endings? I want to draw our attention to endings: the end of a day, the end of a meal, the end of something precious and rare, the end of this sentence. How do you meet endings? I mean, most of us have some developed habits about the way in which we meet endings. Without any judgment or criticality, let’s just take a look to see what our relationship to endings are. Like, when you go to a party, or you go to a conference: Do you have a tendency to leave emotionally or mentally before the conference is over or before the party’s over? Or maybe you’re the one in the parking lot waving goodbye to everybody as they depart. Or maybe you find some way of cocooning yourself, isolating in some way, pulling back into a kind of protective stance. Do you try to shift it into some other form of relationship so that it will continue? Do you end it with a text? When a friend is sick and dying, do you go visit them? You have the freedom to change it, righ...

A Meditation on Endings

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Collecting Art, take a look How Do You Meet Endings? I want to draw our attention to endings: the end of a day, the end of a meal, the end of something precious and rare, the end of this sentence. How do you meet endings? I mean, most of us have some developed habits about the way in which we meet endings. Without any judgment or criticality, let’s just take a look to see what our relationship to endings are. Like, when you go to a party, or you go to a conference: Do you have a tendency to leave emotionally or mentally before the conference is over or before the party’s over? Or maybe you’re the one in the parking lot waving goodbye to everybody as they depart. Or maybe you find some way of cocooning yourself, isolating in some way, pulling back into a kind of protective stance. Do you try to shift it into some other form of relationship so that it will continue? Do you end it with a text? When a friend is sick and dying, do you go visit them? You have the freedom to change it, righ...

A Meditation on Endings

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Collecting Art, take a look How Do You Meet Endings? I want to draw our attention to endings: the end of a day, the end of a meal, the end of something precious and rare, the end of this sentence. How do you meet endings? I mean, most of us have some developed habits about the way in which we meet endings. Without any judgment or criticality, let’s just take a look to see what our relationship to endings are. Like, when you go to a party, or you go to a conference: Do you have a tendency to leave emotionally or mentally before the conference is over or before the party’s over? Or maybe you’re the one in the parking lot waving goodbye to everybody as they depart. Or maybe you find some way of cocooning yourself, isolating in some way, pulling back into a kind of protective stance. Do you try to shift it into some other form of relationship so that it will continue? Do you end it with a text? When a friend is sick and dying, do you go visit them? You have the freedom to change it, righ...