a coda

This made me tear up, quoted at the end of an essay written by a distant colleague, who is facing the reality of lung cancer

“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice." Pema Chodron

via {a sociology of my death}
photo of the {schwangunk range}