The End – Ending and Beginning
A beginning is an ending, always. That quote is from the short story Satan’s Children, by Spider Robinson. It is, in fact, the very first line, and possibly the best first line ever written. I mention this because I got to tell Spider that, the very first time we met, and that was the beginning of a thirty-year (so far) friendship. I love that line, not just for its elegance, but for the sheer truth of it. The thing is, there’s often a transition period between the two states when pain makes it hard to tell much of anything. Birth…
