“I think what it means to be human is to live a life that’s deeply cyclical. There isn’t one path, a straight path, and certainly not an uphill path that works its way to a summit where the angels sing… My understanding now, as I get older, of being human, is that my life is fundamentally cyclical; that everything repeats itself; that nothing lasts.”
–Katherine May, “How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes”, On Being with Krista Tippett, Jan. 21, 2021
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