Friday, November 21, 2025
The Loved Ones
I read this in a secular spirit, whatever Wendell's intentions: the permanent world is this one, but inverted. As Emerson said: "there is no other world." But there are other ways to take it. And my dear departed are indeed present, ever more-so as time goes by. And I am ever less absent. I begin to inhabit what Richard Ford calls the Permanent Period.
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