![]() ![]() There is nothing to be done about it, but to ignore it, or see. Falling form airplanes, people are crying thank you, thank you all down the air and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks. I think that the dying pray at the last not “please,” but “thank you,” as a guest thanks his host at the door. “Not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Eskimo earnestly, “did you tell me?” 6) On the task of being grateful for being alive Somewhere I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest. ![]() 5) On our flawed conception of the afterlife You open the door and all heaven and hell break loose. Wouldn’t it be simpler just to rough in a slab of chemicals, a green acre of goo? …The lone ping into being of the first hydrogen atom ex nihilo was so unthinkably, violently radical that surely it ought to have been enough, more than enough. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up solar energy, and give off oxygen. You wait for it, empty-handed, and you are filled. …You don’t run down the present, pursue it with baited hook and nets. All I want to do is stay awake, keep my head up, prop my eyes open, with toothpicks, with trees. We keep waking from a dream we can’t recall, looking around in surprise, and lapsing back, for years on end. 3) On experiencing the present momentīut time is one thing we have been given, and we have been given to time. But if you can cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so fatigued that he won’t stoop to pick up a penny. Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.
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