Monday, November 10, 2008

i wish i had written these words

NO MATTER WHO’S ELECTED president, daffodils will bloom in the spring. Men and women will fall in love and, sadly, out of love. Inconsolable grief will still be inconsolable. A broken heart will nonetheless keep beating one hundred thousand times a day. No matter who’s elected president, writers will write. Painters will paint. Three in the morning will still be three in the morning. The door in our psyche we don’t want to walk through will still be just down the hall. No matter who’s elected president, life will hand us the invisible thread that connects us all; love will hand us the needle.

-Sy Safransky, Editor of The Sun. Click on the word "Sunbeams" in the title bar to get to their website. If I could, I'd buy you all a subscription for xmas.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

True enough. Although I'm of the opinion thta we were rapidly headed in the direction of fewer daffodils and greater grief.

suesun said...

It will be up to us to plant more daffodils and ease one another's suffering, then........

Anonymous said...

That is my hope and my plan.