New Orts #8

March 10 MMXXIV

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
           -- Luciano de Crescenzo (1928-  )

Time is a timeless concept that has led mankind badly astray, especially as we record age, which we do from the time of birth, and yet it is not elapsed time that really concerns us, but time remaining, and that is something that we cannot know. A youth of fifteen who will die tomorrow is older by far than an elder of seventy-two who has ten years remaining to him. And so we should not concern ourselves with time, except as we must arrange meetings or journeys by public conveyance.
        -- Uncle Otto, In Garrison Keillor's novel Wobegon Boy (1997)

 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
        -- Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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