Buddha's "Five Remembrances"

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way I can escape growing old.

I am of the nature to get sick. There is no way I can escape getting sick.

I am of the nature to die. There is no way I can escape death.

All that is dear to me and everyone I love will change. There is no way I can escape being separated from them.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.

My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

[Seen in Katy Butler's The Art of Dying Well. 

Also all over the net; see here, for example.]

Autographs — Bernath, Divya, Doyle, Kuintzle, Mahabal, Moran, Sivaramakrishnan

Ann Bernath, S.B. Divya, Richard J. Doyle, Rachael Kuintzle, Ashish Mahabal, Christine Corbett Moran

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As an SF fan and JPL alum, obviously I had to buy this book. Happily, Vroman's held an event tonight with six of the authors:

Each read a portion of a story, and all signed books afterwards.

But when I got home, I find a seventh story autographed:

This is puzzling, because there were only six authors on stage,

and the six passed my book along and signed as I walked by. I did not carefully watch each one sign, but I didn't take my eyes off them much as they did. And I don't think there was a signature already in the book when I bought it twenty days ago!

Two or three of the authors said they had more than one story in the book, but Sivaramakrishnan's web photo doesn't match anyone on stage. The closest match would be Mahabal, but neither in person nor on his web photo does he look much like Allic Sivaramakrishnan. Nor do they do the same work, according to those two web pages.

P.S. Mystery solved: I asked the editor (and sort-of ringleader of the night's event) Rachael Kuintzle, and she replied, "Allic was present for the book signing; in fact, he was the first person you handed the book to, as the first person in the lineup. He just didn't participate in the main presentation."

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