Tradition
Secular reflection
Reflection that does not appeal to a religious or philosophical authority. The pieces here were written for this collection and make no claim to be anything other than one way of putting a question.
3 passages
Passages
ReflectionWritten for this collection
Reflection: rehearsing the futureWorry feels like preparation. That is the trick of it. Running the bad outcome again tonight will not make you readier for it than running it once did, and you have already run it…ReflectionWritten for this collection
Reflection: the account I am keepingThere is an account open in your name, and you are the only one making entries in it. That is the strange part. The person who wronged you has, in all likelihood, stopped thinking…ReflectionWritten for this collection
Reflection: what the pain is askingPain arrives with instructions attached, and most of them are wrong. It says: fix this now. It says: this will not end. It says: you should have seen it coming, and someone is to b…