This life can be so mind-boggling, so utterly overwhelming, that language fails. In a sense, language will always be inadequate to express what we deeply feel and surprisingly discover. But today I’ll try to form a few thoughts about this wildly beautiful and at once deeply disturbing life that we live: mind-bogglingly glorious and also …
“Serious business.” How’s your heart rate when you hear this phrase? Which scenarios leap to mind? A hardship, maybe? A significant task with your name on it, perhaps one considerably overdue? Or much larger challenges impacting us all on the societal, even global scale? Tragedies, too, which proliferate? “Joy” is certainly not the first thing …
The phrase, “And Daffadillies fill their cups with tears,” from John Milton’s elegy “Lycidas” lingers in my mind as only a sorrowing beauty-filled thought can. Daffadillies, daffadillies—what lovely sounds to have roll off the tongue. Such beauty, and yet, yes, with such beauty, tears. Whole cups of tears, tears to overflowing. When I read this …
Monika Hilder 