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August 29, 2008 |Permalink |Comments (0)

Power-Up Friday: End of Summer Reading

I'm reading the new travel narrative, "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star", by Paul
Theroux. Here's a provocative quote from the book, which I will submit for this
week's post:

"As a young man I regarded the earth as a fixed and trustworthy thing that would
see me into my old age; but older, I began to understand transformation as a
natural law, something emotional in an undependable world that was visibly
spoiled. It is only with age that you acquire the gift to evaluate decay, the
epiphany of Wordsworth, the wisdom of 'wabi-sabi': nothing is perfect, nothing is
complete, nothing lasts."

-- Al Power

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