taking it in slowly

Tonight, I think of Eurge, and I also think of Pat and Poon. I didn’t know them well, but each time, I was struck by the unexpectedness. “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” — Joan Didion

lacouleurjaune:

Every term, Phillips Exeter Academy mails its alumi copies of the Exeter bulletin that contain marriages, births, and deaths. I’ve always wondered who would be the first among our class to marry and to have children. But never the first too die - we were far too young for that.

But to read the death of a classmate on the news, to hear him described as “a 2008 graduate of the exclusive Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire” - to think of my school that way, is sobering.

Exeter is a community. And it’s during times like this that I truly, truly appreciate Exeter and miss the warmth of Phillips Church.

Rest in Peace