You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.

Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.