Mairin Schuman’s Reviews > Radiance of the Ordinary: Essays on Life, Death, and the Sinews that Bind > Status Update

“We wash the eggs and dip them in chlorine to rid them of the gift of a feather from the soft underbelly of the mother hen. We remove all traces of connection — a leaf, hair, bones, hide, crumbs of soil. And in every little thing wiped away, so too the wiping of our awareness. Nothing here has died for us… And the blessings, like the clumps of earth that once clung to that carrot, are washed away.” P70

“The folly of the human is to always think he can outsmart the brilliance of our Creator. We prefer to emulate what's already been figured out by a force much brighter than our puny little minds.”