^z 17th January 2023 at 12:25pm
| "There are only two days with fewer than twenty-four hours in each lifetime, sitting like bookends astride our lives: one is celebrated every year, yet it is the other that makes us see living as precious." |
... a poetic observation from With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Kathryn Mannix, as quoted in Cathy Rentzenbrink's essay "When comfort reading won't cut it: books to restore hope in humanity".
(cf JohnsonCondolences, DeathAndLife (2005-01-02), Ultimate Freedom (2017-06-18), Making the Ordinary Extraordinary (2017-09-11), ...) - ^z - 2020-09-30