“It’s amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.” – Meryl Streep

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

25 June

Life is a treasure hunt. True, life can be harrowing, unjust, full of apparent contradiction and anxiety. Even so, we need to see positives proliferating all about us, and within us. For they are, like the air we breathe, so close to what and where we are that they are very difficult to perceive. They’re also far more potent than all the bad news we’re endlessly surrounded by.