(10/30)

Excerpts from Kate Bowler’s No Cure For Being Human

(not technically poetry, but this book has passages of the most beautiful and painfully human prose.)

“Burdened by the past, preoccupied by the present, or worried about the future, I had failed to appreciate the inestimable gift of a single minute.” (p84)

“Moments like these feel transcendent, the past and the future experienced together in moments where I can see a flicker of eternity. Time is not an arrow anymore, and heaven is not tomorrow. It’s here, for a second, when I could drown in the beauty of what I have but also what may never be.” (p85)

“It takes great courage to live. Period. There are fears and disappointments and failures every day, and in the end, the hero dies. It must be cinematic to watch from above.” (p91)