Pacific Views

Spaulding Gray Found Dead

I've always found listening to Spaulding Gray a very intense and meditative experience. So I find the news that he is dead, possibly by suicide a painful story. As the NYTimes's article says, he had spent many years fighting depression and then finally after he reached the age of 52 (the age his mother was when she killed herself) he found peace and some happiness in his life. All that was lost a couple of years ago when he survived a very bad car accident which crushed his hip and fractured his skull and sent him back into a deep depression. Unfortunately, it looks like this trial was too much for him and we've lost the fragile soul that shared his insight and human pain with us. May you rest in peace, Spaulding.