"We are not dust and shadow…."
Recently I read
a homily that included a casual observation—pulvis et umbra sunt—with this intended
meaning: we are nothing but dust and shadow.
I'm familiar, as
you are, with the standard poetic and philosophical thought bubble that argues on
these lines:
"Man is a mote in the cosmic crystal spheres, a life is a bit
in the vastness of being" and so on….
That doesn't ring
true for me. My life is all my own, it is all, I share my being and my living with
those I love, I think it's a big story and I love it.
Dust and shadow
are involved, yes, but we can strive always to limit dust and shadow to circumstance,
to a dust whirl, to a passing shadow….
I like to hear the
song of the Sequichie of the Cherokees:
"O, listen! Hear! Sing
with me, for I am joy."
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