Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.
Sena Jeter NaslundMortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.
Sena Jeter NaslundWhere there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often fill the gap.
Sena Jeter NaslundYou are my Easter.
Sena Jeter NaslundWhat can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
Sena Jeter NaslundI feel only sorrow that I have failed to please. Sorrow-and not resentment-for my mother says that resentment is the most readily visible of all the sinful emotions, but sorrow can enhance one's sweetness and appeal. Resentment, the empress says, is like a snake that nests in the bosom, and it can turn and strike her who harbors it.
Sena Jeter NaslundYet intact Ahab, back from his first voyage, once said of just such a changeable breeze, This contrast is the way of life itself. All playfully, he added, But were I God, then would every day be invariantly good. Then he asked me if he might be the god of my world.
Sena Jeter NaslundOf our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.
Sena Jeter Naslundsometimes when we look forward to an event with great and happy anticipation, the event itself may disappoint or be in import so different from what we have expected that we can say the anticipated event did not occur at all but some other experience.
Sena Jeter NaslundHer eyes were as green as the sea, and forever I forgave the sea for not appearing blue.
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