From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,”
by Arnold Kunst
27 November
"Come apart for a little while," it says in the Bible. It's
all about feeding the soul, so when I perceive it is hungry I must go, for
example, to confront yet again the riddle of an ever-cleansing sea cleansing an
ever-cleansed shore, to answer yet again the beckoning call of the wild geese,
the whisper of the wind, the gossamer-wing spread of stars splashed carelessly
across an enticing sky. To delve, because clearly deep is calling unto deep. To
delve with courage and persistence and a sense of humor, with faith that when I
dive off the edge I’ll either be caught or I’ll sprout the necessary wings on
the way down. For it is only in confronting the yawning chasm of loneliness
that I will ever taste the height and depth and width of mystical communion
such as I was made for. And when I do it right I'll be able to show Odysseus
himself what "journey" REALLY means.
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