Riverboats and Bone Yards V |
Monday Mar 05 2007

By Stu Whitley
Bio
This is the fifth in a five-part series.
Is there any joy to be found in sadness? I believe there is. Sadness is almost always about loss. If we are able to examine in a serious way the nature of that loss, I think we would find a validation of what we took to be good. In other words, sadness can be a reaffirmation of the virtues we hold dear. This can be a bit tricky though. For example, if one regrets the passage of youth for its own sake, enormous and ultimately futile effort is needed to ignore the ceaseless transformation that the natural world presents.[Read More]