12. July, 2006 - Death

First Post to a New Blog: a death in the family has me in a dim morbid kind of place.

Cattle die and kinsmen die,
thyself too soon must die,
but one thing never, I ween, will die, --
fair fame of one who has earned.

Cattle die and kinsmen die,
thyself too soon must die,
but one thing never, I ween, will die, --
the doom on each one dead. --Havamal