Jas ser til – og vender aldrig blikket væk

as we are transported to the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy

Mary Oliver is beautifully open to the teachings contained within the smallest of moments

hvor hun hører isen bryde

som det var i 1947

Departure(s) Jas ser til – ogDeparture(s) is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality. It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness, accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade into anecdotes, and then into memory. Does it matter if what we remember