The most poignant of the unwittingly revealing prefaces of a story that ends badly begins with, āAll I wanted was . . . ā This morning, as I was oscillating between the dozing and waking states, there popped into my stream of consciousness the recognition that maybe ājust maybe āon a day in which I had nothing else scheduled, I could get some writing done, without interruptions. Fortunately, Iāve a place I can get away to occasionally, as near to a scriptorium as I can hope to find within easy reach. (That fact alone qualifies me for cosmic wrath. Who am I to upset the balance of nature by striving for an unqualified good?)
Read this essay in Touchstone Magazine.