Looking up-canyon on the lip of the gorge, a sharp shadowline creeps up the volcanic slabs on the other side. The light suddenly suffuses everything, and becomes ethereal, like nothing…
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fear of death
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Theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, a professor at Stanford, says, “The fear of death was hardwired into our genetic makeup in the deep past.” That’s a dubious premise.
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It’s near dusk, and the parkland seems to be full of Cooper’s hawks. At one point on the path, a large, brown, stipple-winged hawk takes off from the path ahead…
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The half inch mattress did not supply much padding between my body and the solid wood bed frame. Rolling up the blanket would leave me too cold and no matter…