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Practicing Dying Thirteen perspectives on death and letting go. Ginger Rogers on the night she hears of the passing of Fred Astaire. The arc of the career of heavyweight boxer Cleveland Cat Williams. Eisenhower bereft of speech; Normandy, twenty years after. A woman in her last hour, letting go to vision of youth. A faded farm in Nebraska. These and others. Mysterious, sacred, sad, profane ( Closer to Death (#10) a Monty Pythonish or esque?) view. All songs arise from the comments of a Catholic Trappist monk: Death is the on-rushing fact of your life....and that is not a tragedy . All songs written and performed by Dennis Caraher who grew up on a farm in Iowa and now lives in Northampton, Ma. His earlier releases include Radio Boy (with Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry) and three records for children, including the 2009 Parents Choice Gold Medal Award for I Miss the Mud .