THE MEMORIAL PAGES · TIME & MEMORY 47/50

TUESDAY, 14:03 — passed quietly while you checked your phone. Survived by no one. No services will be held.

A SUNSET, OCTOBER — rated "pretty good" and released. It had prepared colors nobody has mixed since.

THE PAUSE before she answered — lost to interruption. Donations to the cause of finishing sentences.

A WALK, taken as transit rather than as a walk. The trees had dressed for the occasion.

WEDNESDAY, ENTIRE — details unavailable. Reconstructed later from receipts.

THE JOKE at dinner, twice-told, mistimed — died as it lived: trying.

11:59 PM — the year's last minute, spent looking for the remote.

STILL LIVING:

the one moment you gave your whole attention to

[ PHOTO — table after
a long dinner ]

Attention is the only embalming fluid that works in reverse: it keeps things alive.

FIFTY POSTERS ON THINKING IN MEMORIAM: MOST OF IT