Etty Hillesum — Cosmic Sadness
Ought we not, from time to time, open ourselvesto cosmic sadness? … She was young, only 27, with faraway eyes,clear, and penetrating. A Dutch Jew, ...
Ought we not, from time to time, open ourselvesto cosmic sadness? … She was young, only 27, with faraway eyes,clear, and penetrating. A Dutch Jew, ...
I’m wandering under the wayless stars, over the naked breast of life, which resemblesthe Great Sandhills of Saskatchewan. At a summit,I see a breathing tree p...
…rememberingthe time you, only twenty, a first-aid manin a mill town, delivered a baby up north,that slipperiness, the shout the baby gavewhen he took i...
Walking through a hayfield in south Saskatchewan, and sage fills my head, and bromegrass and timothy—leaning toward autumn—have turned rust-brown....