The only thing that comes to mind,
one of the few things that comes to mind,
is, ah again, death, um,
and the time when my partner
Phoebe was um, diagnosed with cancer
and then
you know, it's a really weird thing
to have a terminal illness or,
um, to witness someone else have a terminal illness,
because between all the denial,
and "No, it's gonna be fine",
and you know, believing, hoping, faith,
there is this factor of time becoming tangible.
And every minute and every second
that you spend together
all of a sudden becomes
so incredibly precious
that you can really taste it or feel it.
And at the same time
you want to forget about
how precious the time is
because then if you are
aware of it you can't
really enjoy spending it together.
Um, and that's sort of, um,
I guess, one of the tragedies of life.
And um, the other story that
I had to think about is:
many many years ago when I
was traveling all over Europe
I was sitting on a hill in Spain
overlooking the rolling hills
down to the sea and
the sun started to go down,
and all the animals in the (laughs),
in the county probably,
started making sounds.
The dog started barking,
the sheep starting making
their whatever sheep sounds...
And goats, and the chickens,
and everyone was like: auuwhhüü.
And I was sitting on this hill
and I was like so mesmerized
by this one specific moment in time
that I still remember it 30 years later.
And
it's such a beauty,
that we wake up every morning
and the day ends every day
and that there's a cycle of time
and we get to do it again
and again and again.