It's Friday, and am I beat! It's been a very long week. First of all, the weather is absolutely gorgeous, plenty of sunshine and late morning warmth after a couple days of light rain. Unfortunately, this makes for a crazy high pollen count. Students and I are congested. Sneezing. Coughing. Asthmatics wheezing. That by itself is tiring.
But also, I know a young man who is dying of colon cancer. He's in hospice, and us knowing that he will soon be leaving us, while we still hang on to every moment of life with him is intensely wearying. I wouldn't have it any other way. Yesterday, on the way home from visiting with his mother, there was so much beauty in the pollen-filled air, golden from sunset.
Anyway, the strong combination of human tragedy with unmistakeable beauty reminds me of Eric Drooker's graphic novel Blood Song. A gorgeous wordless book.
Look for his art on the cover of the latest New Yorker magazine.
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