“Ah death, a change of clothes.”–The 14th Dalai Lama
The endless fields of amber grain. Valhalla so far in the distance it is, we are sure, just shy of eternity. Mortality, we have decided, is not for us. “Heaven can wait.”
“Looking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast.
One of my all-time favourite speakers, Andrew Solomon, in one of his talks discusses ‘forging meaning’. It’s…