The New York Times – Style – Bringing a Daughter Back From the Brink With Poems – Published: February 26, 2015
The burning timeless question of how we experience joy and hopefulness, or at least a peaceful contentedness, in the face of personal and macro chaos, remains the million-dollar question. In Bringing a Daughter Back From the Brink With Poems, Betsy MacWhinney, in her NYT essay, courageously shares her journey.
The Wendell Barry Manifesto that she references, Be joyful though you have considered all the facts, is a powerful reminder that the onus is on each of us to discover a life worth living. Awareness of the profound imperfections of the human condition does not preclude deep pleasure and satisfaction in this one shot we have at life.
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