\u201cMy gumboots are gone!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBunny is gone!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy phone is gone!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are some of the panicked statements I hear at home almost every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWell, if it\u2019s not here, it will be elsewhere. Let\u2019s have a look together\u201d, I say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And of course that\u2019s true. When something is \u201cgone\u201d, that does not mean that it has truly disappeared: It means that we either do not immediately know where it is, or that we know where it is, but cannot easily reach it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This morning, driving home from the school run, it suddenly dawned on me. We say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeter is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And we mean he has died. Often, we understand that to mean that he no longer exists. We might know where the body is \u2013 but where is *Peter*? Where is he as a personality, as a presence, as a collection of experiences, as someone we had in our lives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The simple answer is that we either do not immediately know, or that we know but cannot easily reach him. What it certainly does not mean is that Peter has disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s gone is elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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