“When you really feel it (your own mortality), it’s a visceral feeling…it’s like a punch in the face or a punch in the chest. It kind of just wakes you up.”

Richie is a musician and soon-to-be recovery coach for substance abusers from Brooklyn, New York. I spoke with him for my Mortal Chats series of wide-ranging conversations about mortality and its corollaries with people of all stripes.

Richie and I dig into the vehicular roots of his growing mortality awareness, his acceptance of the pandemic as a normal feature of existence, why he doesn’t feel especially mortality minded even though he’s a Black man in America, and other topics—including the ninja-like critter he’d want to return to life as if he were reincarnated. 

And, as usual, I share my daily mortality mantras with you. I say both to myself every morning, usually during the ice cold shower I take shortly after getting out of bed to help wake my groggy ass up and start the day off right. I hope they help you as much as they help me.

Topics, et cetera, discussed in this episode include:

• Covid-19/coronavirus pandemic

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(Music: Brass Beat by Blake © 2011 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.)