Archive For March 3, 2017
“Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people – sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.” – Rudolfo A. Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima, 1972 The old man had…
Illustration by Dadu Shin. Authored by Tod Balf. Purloined from The New York Times. 3/1/2017 “You’re sort of in between, aren’t you?” an old friend asked me recently. She’d been through it all with me — my diagnosis of a rare spine cancer two years ago, the radical multistage surgery, the long rehab stint, the…