Lenten Reflection Day 17 (Mar 10): GOING OUT and COMING IN (from Psalm 121).
SONG: Come and Go by Juice WRLD & Marshmello (caution: some explicit lyrics): https://youtu.be/Dxm3cHrKcbA
POEM: Dana Levin: You Will Never Get Death / Out of your System (excerpt): How old is the earth? I asked my machine, and it said: Five great extinctions, one in process, four and a half billion years. It has always been very busy on Earth: so much coming and going! The terror and the hope ribboning through that.
QUOTE: Neil Gaiman: I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend … I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust.