You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.