Poems by Raymond Carver

 And did you get what

you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

“Late Fragment” by Raymond Carver From A New Path to the Waterfall, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

 This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. I might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just doen't know it at the time.