

Giving Up the Ghost: The Gift of Mortality
15 May 2021 “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” -- Mae West I am 67 years old, the same age my father died, three years short of his Biblical “three score and ten.” It is also the year that Easter Sunday was the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, at the age of 39. As my father marched with King in Selma, and my son Byron was born on Martin Luther King Day five years ago, this was a day fraught with significance. Nev