Reprinted from an article I wrote for the We are Proud Aging Women Blog that was posted back in Jan 10, 2020. This was before I was known to have prostate cancer, before I started any cancer treatment, before I became involved with any cancer support groups, before I had seen people I just met, people who I had come to love and admire die in hospice of cancer, before I had any inkling of how life and death are so intricately interwoven in these beautiful yet unexplored tapestries called ‘being’ and ‘existence’ and their antitheses.