The Very Astonishment of Being Alive

You know, sometimes you read a line in a book and it just keeps coming back to you and coming back to you. And this happened to me recently with the book Super Infinite by Catherine Rundell. That is the one about the poet John Donne. There’s a line that I particularly love from that and it keeps coming back to me when I’m out walking the dog. She writes, Dunn saw, analyzed, lived alongside, even saluted corruption and death. He was often hopeless, often despairing, and yet still he insisted at the very end, it is an astonishment to be alive and it behooves you to be astonished.

And it’s that last part. It is an astonishment to be alive and it behooves you to be astonished. That just, you know, you’ve got to be present.

But I do like the part about saluting, what was that, saluting death and…

Saluted corruption and death.

Saluted corruption and death because they are a part of that experience, both the positive and the negative.

But yeah, why don’t we wake up every day astonished that we have one more day upon this earth?

Yes, yes.

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