No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.
She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.
Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.