Personal Essay

A Lantern Lit Up My Death Reflection

RIP Shannon and the little fella in our roof

Carolyn Hastings
8 min readAug 21, 2021

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Image by Kerstin Riemer from Pixabay

‘Death is a universal condition.
It will happen to all of us one day.’
Dying To Be Alive by C. Thomas Perry PhD (2015)

‘Death changes you.
It has a way of…

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Carolyn Hastings

Well-practiced speech pathologist now practicing to be a children’s book writer — emphasis on practicing.