James Sexton

It's temporary.

So feel it fully, embrace it.

See it as the precious thing that it is.

See it as the finite thing that it is.

Take it seriously.

Treat it like something that is going away.

And if it has value to you, you would remember to say, like if you knew this was the last time we were gonna talk, there's some things you'd say, you know?

And that's what's so great about like hospice.

It's what's so great, when I knew my mother was dying, you know, we walked out of that hospital and she started hospice and she was on hospice for two years.

I'd already been a hospice volunteer at that point for quite some time, but it was a very different experience.

And it just changed a lot of things.

It didn't really matter that we disagreed about some things politically and that we didn't have a perfect relationship.

I was a hard person to have as a son.

She was not a perfect mom.

Like it didn't really matter.

Like we loved each other.

Like, you know, she did the best she could do.

And I did the best that I could do.

And like, all that really mattered at that moment was like, do you know I love you?

Do you know that like, I'm good?