Just Trying for a Right Thought, 1

Two relatively recent, powerful works of art make me think about our need to confront what we might dread, but what we know intuitively will illuminate our souls, will help us touch again – or find for the first time – that indefinable truth that makes us realize we are human and alive and part of a mysterious condition, and we are glad for it. The works: Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, and the Paul Greenglass film, United 93. Do not be afraid of them. Take a cleansing and empowering breath (take several of them, in fact), read or view with an open heart, which means a heart open to pain and sorrow as well as the good, and grow.