Time Is The School In Which We

I Hadn't Thought That I Was Generally A Pack Rat, But It Turns Out I Am.

A Pool Is, For Many Of Us In The West, A Symbol Not Of Affluence But Of Order, Of Control Over The Uncontrollable. A Pool Is Water, Made Available And Useful, And Is, As Such, Infinitely Soothing To The Western Eye.

That Was The Year, My Twenty-eighth, When I Was Discovering That Not All Of The Promises Would Be Kept, That Some Things Are In Fact Irrevocable And That It Had Counted After All, Every Evasion And Every Procrastination, Every Mistake, Every Word, All Of It.

Time Is The School In Which We Learn.

I Came Into Adult Life Equipped With An Essentially Romantic Ethic.