fear of death

Looking up-canyon on the lip of the gorge, a sharp shadowline creeps up the volcanic slabs on the other side. The light suddenly suffuses everything, and becomes ethereal, like nothing…

Theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, a professor at Stanford, says, “The fear of death was hardwired into our genetic makeup in the deep past.” That’s a dubious premise.

It’s near dusk,‭ ‬and the parkland seems to be full of Cooper’s hawks.‭ ‬At one point on the path,‭ ‬a large,‭ ‬brown,‭ ‬stipple-winged hawk takes off from the path ahead…

The half inch mattress did not supply much padding between my body and the solid wood bed frame.  Rolling up the blanket would leave me too cold and no matter…