Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow hard bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where...
Prohibit the taking of omens and do away with superstitious doubts. Then until death itself comes no calamity need be feared.
