charisma & cashmere

This plus the fact that they are actually NOT happy that more 40+ year old women are getting pregnant (in no small part due to the increasing availability of fertility treatments and IVF).

The art of dying well cannot be severed from the art of living well, and that includes caring for one another; especially when it is hard, inconvenient, or costly. It is not enough to offer the dying control. We must offer them dignity — not by affirming their despair but by affirming their worth. Even when they are suffering. Even when they are vulnerable. Even when they are, in worldly terms, a burden.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. This is a fact of daily experience. At what moment do lovers come into the most complete possession of themselves if not when they say they are lost in each other?