Sleep
As far as I'm concerned, the most haunting words of the week were found in the farewell note scrawled by Martin Toler Jr., a worker who died in West Virginia's Sago Mine disaster. As reported by the New York Times:
" 'Tell all - I see them on the other side,' Mr. Toler, a 51-year-old mine foreman, wrote. Nearby were the words, 'It wasn't bad, I just went to sleep.' And at the bottom, 'I love you.' "
It wasn't bad, I just went to sleep.
This before he even had gone "to sleep." Did he have any inkling yet of how the final moments would be? Had the fall to sleep already begun? Were pure comfort and generosity covering pure fear? How much prescience was there? How much hope? How much truth?
" 'Tell all - I see them on the other side,' Mr. Toler, a 51-year-old mine foreman, wrote. Nearby were the words, 'It wasn't bad, I just went to sleep.' And at the bottom, 'I love you.' "
It wasn't bad, I just went to sleep.
This before he even had gone "to sleep." Did he have any inkling yet of how the final moments would be? Had the fall to sleep already begun? Were pure comfort and generosity covering pure fear? How much prescience was there? How much hope? How much truth?
posted by Billy at 6:25 PM
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