“That is happiness,” Willa Cather wrote, “to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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A Language for the Exhilaration of Being Alive: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Music and the Universe
“Matter delights in music, and became Bach,” Ronald Johnson wrote in his stunning 1980 prose poem about music and the mind. This may be why music so moves and rearranges and harmonizes us, why in it we become most fully ourselves — “atoms with consciousness,” axons with feeling.
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What Happens When We Die
When my atheist engineer grandfather died, my atheist engineer grandmother leaned over the body in the hospice bed that had contained half a century of shared life and love, cradled the cranium in which his stubborn and sensitive mind had dwelt, and whispered into the halogen-lit ether: “Where did
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Front Porch Reflections 