ashes-to-ashes and being-towards-death

remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return

Ash Wednesday, a day for Catholics and Heideggerians alike; that friendly liturgical reminder that we are going to die. Or to be more precise:

You are going to die.

Not in that "everyone dies someday," or "it could happen tomorrow at 2:13 in a freakish accidental sort way," or "I want to be cremated and the organist better play The Old Rugged Cross." Not some far-off, common, futural event, but your ownmost possibility.

You are dust.

Button Shortbread

So it turns out, if you spend enough time looking at websites like this and this, you're eventually compelled to bake button shaped shortbread and start a blog.