Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt

for Steve Paxton and Michael Bloomfield

I have a lifetime of reasons to not believe in the idea of death. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt we do not die. I have had conversations with my father through a medium, long after his body had become ashes; there was no mistaking his sense of humor, favorite expressions from the 1920´s I´d never heard anywhere else, his private jokes with me, his …