Orts #797

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
     — Ralph Waldo Emerson


The pulse in your throat signals that in your torso all is well; it will beat till it quits. That concordance of organs lives within us like sea creatures throbbing on a coral reef, strung there as on our skeleton as long as conditions allow.
     — Edward Hoagland, Feeling My Way Into Blindness, New York Times, November 17, 2016
              http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/opinion/sunday/feeling-my-way-into-blindness.html?ref=opinion&_r=0


That is what is strange—that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened.
     — May Sarton (1912–1995), in Journal of a Solitude, entry for September 15, 1972
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Bonus link: the Overture to Mozart's Magic Flute, played by trombone quartet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9w4Pn-TgEE
a waker-upper!