What Keeps Me Living
How not dying has made me stronger

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
This axiom, found in Ecclesiastes, surfaced in my mind last New Year’s Eve as the final hours of 2018 bled slowly away. As I stared glumly into the bathroom mirror at yet another volcanic eruption studding my 51-year-old mug, echoes of my…