Out of the Box, In the Box

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ED NOTE: I just checked the stats/hits on the last eight years of Heart of Innovation blog posts and was surprised to see that the following article about my father’s death got the most attention (30% more views than anything else!). I’ve always assumed I was “supposed” to be writing about innovation and creativity, but maybe there’s something else more essential I need to be writing about…

There is a time of life when the time of life is about to end — the time of last breaths, the time of saying goodbye to everything you have ever known or loved, the time of letting go.

This is the time my father now finds himself in.

He is flat on his back in a hospital bed, but the hospital bed is in his bedroom in West Palm Beach which is where he has chosen to die — and will.