“Death: We will all have it. In a century this distance between him and me will be nothing.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
more infosource: Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1933–1935 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 13.
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category: death, grief, human condition, mortality, mourning
medium: diary
notes: diary entry dated Monday, January 30, 1933; Anne and Charles Lindbergh's son Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was kidnapped on the evening of March 1, 1932 at the age of twenty months
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
more infosource: “The American Scholar,” in The American Scholar, Self-Reliance, Compensation (New York: American Book Company, 1911), 42.
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category: era, human condition, technology, time
medium: nonfiction
notes: epigraph to Hamlet's BlackBerry by William Powers
“The young are born to the human condition more than to their time, and they face mainly the same trials and obligations as their elders have faced.”
Wendell Berry
more infosource: “Family Work,” in The Gift of Good Land (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 1981), 160.
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category: elderly, history, human condition, young
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