Death & Life & Simple Offerings

Sydney Bollinger
4 min readMay 31, 2018

“Death is the way in which the living make an offering so that more life emerges.” -Andreas Weber, Matter and Desire

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When I finally die, and I say finally because I know it will happen soon enough, place me in the offering plate among discarded change and straggling dollar bills, on top of tithe checks and prayer requests. Let my dead body be an offering to the Almighty that lives around me and within me. I…

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Sydney Bollinger

M.S. in Environmental Writing. Writer and editor discussing the arts, entertainment, and climate change. Words Lead at Peregrine Coast Press.