And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth. Raymond Carver [1938-1988] was an American short-story writer and poet
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Author and journalist Mitch Albom on time: “Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around […]
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“Those who travel the high road of humility in Washington, D.C. are not bothered by heavy traffic.” Former Sen. Alan Simpson on George HW Bush at his funeral. “He never lost his sense of humor. Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life. That’s what humor is. He never hated anyone. He […]
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Walter Wangerin – facing cancer several years ago (he’s still going) Suddenly–in the midst of a life fresh and green and full of dreams–death intrudes. Your death. The real thing. Das Ding an sich, as the Germans say: “The thing itself.” And what may in the past have been a warning, perhaps a multitude of […]
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Stephen King on Giving – Vassar commencement address, 2001 http://commencement.vassar.edu/2001/010520.king.html Keywords: King, Stephen; giving; charity; commencement; What are you going to do, Vassar oh-one? Who will be the doctors, the lawyers, the writers, the painters, the executives, the politicians? Who’s going to look around at age forty-five, surprised as hell to find himself or herself […]
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In answer to the question, What is the nature of our passing from this life to the next, he told the following story: A little boy, full of life and energy, played and played after dinner until he wound himself down. He curled up on the couch in the family room and fell asleep. At […]
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