M E M E N T O M O R I

You are going to die.
You might as well get comfortable with it.


A veiled urn on a headstone at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, GA

At some point in our distant past, a human being looked at the body of another human being and decided not to leave it where it fell. What happened next may tell us something extraordinary about when humans began treating the dead as something more than biological remains.


There are many ways to look at death.

The art of remembering that you won’t be here forever.

Where memory, art, history, and the dead occupy the same ground.

The strange, beautiful, and sometimes bewildering ways humans make sense of the inevitable.

Some thoughts belong on paper.

Others belong on a shirt.