A life with endless sunshine would be a life without starry nights.
From The Anticipation of Loss, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The power went out on the whole block a little past nine, and from the maple I could see the sky come back. Not slowly. All at once, as if someone had taken a cloth off it. I have lived over that street eleven years and I had assumed the stars above it were few and dim, because that is how they had always looked to me. They were neither. For a long while I believed I had gotten the better end of things, having good light to find seed by and a yard that never goes fully dark, but a life with endless sunshine would be a life without starry nights, and I had been spending the one to buy the other without noticing the trade. Switch slept through it. The lights came on again around eleven and the sky closed up, and I sat there a while longer looking at where it had been.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- The future is the past we can still do something about.
- Anything is possible tomorrow that you’re doing something about today.
- In the time between this breath and the next, you pass all your days and all your years.
- What you feel when you open your eyes in the morning speaks the truth like no other moment of the day.
- When you meet the same situation twice, you haven’t met it once.
- The first step of the day leaves the largest footprint.