A part of the main?

An October sunset in Fairfield

 I am diminished. 

A cousin in Wales contacted me through Facebook to tell me that a mutual cousin - his first, my second - has died, seemingly suddenly, not far from me, leaving her husband, her aged mother, and her sister. I'm not sure of her age, except that she was younger than me. 

While checking around for more information, I stumbled across the recent obituary of a Friend (she was a lifelong Quaker) who slipped away a couple of weeks ago. I haven't seen her in years, and have just learned that she lived a matter of blocks away.

I may not be an island, but the circumstances of the past few years certainly have succeeded in isolating me.