Excuse, if you would, the slightly morbid tenor of today's post about grief and love and memento mori. Or skip it! But if you stay and read you just may feel the rush of life and enthusiasm that I'm experiencing. An intriguing and new-to-me connection has been made — an embrace of love and memento mori — that is especially resonant now as I struggle with the terribly premature loss of a friend, a ...