ON WRITING AND READING

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation, They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life. They feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We re given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping with the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed it over and over again. It is like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together at that ship."--Anne Lamott

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Why invest time and energy to an activity that exposes you to unnecessary scrutiny?

           Their arguments against the burial of a dead man have become irrelevant. Are they applying the doctrine of half-truths? 

           These discourses are heartless expletives, routinely parroted by like-minded individuals and speak of the kind of persons that they are--unreconstructed human impostors enslaved by time-bounded psychological thinking of simpletons whose minds are in their anuses.