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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 106 live for today, and forget about yesterday and tomorrow. It gets easier. It's not easy to write how it feels to be alive. It's an immeasurable thing. But I spend a lot of time measuring anyway. I change the baby's diaper, and fix a bottle for his nap, then I open a can of Coca Cola and turn on the radio, which plays a Beethoven Sonata, and I begin: "Monday morning. Out in the early-morning traffic, the fox-hunting, deer-stalking, big-game traffic. It must have reached 90 degrees already." Now, what kind of a dumb beginning is that? Sometimes we can write things we can't say out loud. In her epilogue to Death Be Not Proud, Frances Gunther wrote: "What a Joy life is! Why does no one talk about the Joy of Life?" That's what I'd like to do. Write about the Joy of Life. "Joy is a fundamental emotion," wrote Dr. John Schindler. "Fundamental emotions exist as a continual background. Fundament-al emotions have the greatest influence because they are constant and basic - regardless of what the superficial emotions are." |