It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.
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Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.
Tags: love, life, grief, death
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
Tags: people, time, family, learning
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
Tags: hunting, get, about, just
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.
Tags: world, people, yourself, funny
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
Tags: which, own, my-own, choice
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