The most interesting thing about you is not necessarily the year you were born.  All people have one of those.  And it isn't even the year you transition out of this life.  Again, all people have or will lay claim to one of these. The most interesting thing about you is to be found in the HYPHEN between those years. 

A certain, beautiful truth emerges in the last line of the famous poem "The Dash," by Linda Ellis:  "So when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you lived your dash?"

Episode 6: Making Your Last Last

Michael J. Cotter

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