Bereavement does masquerade softly when the time is ripe for love. In love, as love, when eternity is found in now. The plenitude of now. The rush of blood. The ardor. Behind this love that feels more and more undeniable, a reservoir of grief likewise wells up. The grief is very fluid. At once it […]
To try or not to try
“You will never live if you’re looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus
Life…; or, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.” – Michael Denton I always wonder about the original life […]
Colbert on Roe v. Wade
“I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade… which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.” – Stephen Colbert
The Second Body – Daisy Hildyard
“I [want] to find out what the human animal has become – how we see our bodies, now, when we are all over the place. You are stuck in your body right here, but in a technical way you could be said to be in India and Iraq, you are in the sky causing storms, […]
Astonished.
There are still things inside the world to bring astonishment. The first sip from a cup of coffee in the morning, while you watch the dayglow filter through the window. The way that someone asks how are you and they really mean it. The eggs that I collect, each morning, from my chickens. The weight […]
