Iris, The Absurd

The shelf

What held me up

Not a reading list. The books that were in my hands in that season, and the ones that built the scaffold the cries hung from.

What held me up

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy

Pictures and a few words that ask nothing of you.

The Untethered Soul

Michael A. Singer

On being the one who notices the storm, not the storm.

The Book of Job

The oldest honest argument with God, and the answer that is not an answer.

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Dark Night of the Soul

St. John of the Cross

A map of the dark by someone who walked it.

A Grief Observed

C. S. Lewis

Grief written down as it happened, not as it should have.

Mindsight

Daniel J. Siegel

What a mind does with pain, and what it can learn to do instead.

The scaffold

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

The Bishop of D--, the candlesticks, and a name borrowed from them.

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

That a conscience is a thing that happens to you.

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyone is responsible to everyone for everything.

Our Town

Thornton Wilder

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

Whether the fall was chance or design, and what love does either way.

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