Helsinki’s impressive Lutheran Cathedral

Picture September 9, 2015

Quote of the day

“In all things we are the victims of The Misconception From Afar ... The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of fear/hunger/pain - are constant, predictable... What a powerful thing to know: that one's desires are mappable onto strangers."
George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
The Mower

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.

Philip Larkin
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