Reflections on All Souls Day
— First draft: All Souls Day 2022. Published: 14 March 2023. In his novel ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ Milan Kundera observes that animals don’t have…
— First draft: All Souls Day 2022. Published: 14 March 2023. In his novel ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ Milan Kundera observes that animals don’t have…
My father would have been 87 today. Even in illness, after suffering a stroke and eventual dementia, he was intellectually curious. The day after he suffered…
1. Before he becomes aware of the truly awe-inspiring nature of death, every young man romanticizes death. In his book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,…