Tanya

“But May is now marred by your death. The second anniversary of your death. How could May be so kind and so cruel?”
― Cynthia Reeves, The Last Whaler

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? – every, every minute?’ asks Emily in Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town. The answer, of course, is no. How could we? It’s all we’ve ever known. But contemplating the end can help.”
― Dorian Lynskey, Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

“dogmatism. The journey toward humility comes by honestly knowing our history. Chuck Klosterman’s excellent little book But What If We’re Wrong? details the endless ways societies have been utterly wrong.7 We were wrong about gravity, philosophy, worldview, Pluto, slavery, the earth-centered universe. Time and again, we were wrong. Everything that we now believe to be “true” at some point we were utterly wrong about. Klosterman’s work raises a big question: What are we wrong about right now? The goal of this thought experiment is humility. Klosterman even invites us to “think about the present as if it were the distant past.”8 What do we hold dearly to today that in three hundred years will be found to be entirely wrong? It is a mark of humanity to think that we are right at this very moment. We are full of pride. We assume our progressive, secular values of today can’t be wrong. How could they be? We believe them to be true. But we do not want to confront the ways in which we might be wrong.”
― A.J. Swoboda, After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It

“We have little power over the course the world is taking. That much I learned from my husband's experience. But we do have power over our personal dominions.”
― Cynthia Reeves, The Last Whaler