After the Interlude: a Dialogue about Death and Beyond

After the Interlude explores destiny, the sibling relationship, the impact on destiny of family of origin dynamics, where we were before we were born, where we're going after we've left the planet, thin places, dreams, prayer and the importance of unbending intent. After the Interlude tackles purpose and the most difficult personal question of all personal questions-Why? All human beings know fear. All human beings lose family members. All human beings question. All human beings are wounded and flawed. And, above all, all human beings come with a destiny to be uncovered and a monumental capacity to love.

After The Interlude faces death head-on. Ellyn Peirson's credo on the soul's journey is a personal culmination of years of exploration of the soul. Andrew Ruhl, Ellyn's soul friend, with whom Ellyn collaborated, responds to and frames the theories and propositions in words and photography.

Margaret, Ellyn's only sibling and soul-companion of longest standing, caused this book to be written. She had just died. Andrew, in his fourth post-bone-marrow-transplant year, wondered what the experience of Margaret's actual death-her process of leave-taking-had revealed to Ellyn. Because of their familiar journey into the territory of Andrew's leukemia, Andrew and Ellyn communicated easily about such matters.

While the sharing during the process of Margaret's death was soothing for Ellyn, Andrew's question the morning of Margaret's death was different, unanswerable in a sense, and Ellyn tucked it away in her computer. "What was her leave-taking like to you?"

The question became a holy grail. Pondering, swimming, cloudgazing, Ellyn spent two months traipsing the question's circumference. How does one begin to give words to the sanctity of grief and gratitude, to the observation of a death, to the exit of a huge soul?

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