To mark today’s reading (from Ecclesiastes) about human vanity, I turn to Samuel Johnson’s great poem about the subject.
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Is Old Age Becoming Overrated?
A “New Yorker” article on aging turns to literature to debunk the notion that aging is a good thing.
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Footprints on the Sands of Time
Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life” quotes from today’s Gospel reading–“let the dead bury their own dead”–in ways that help illuminate Jesus’s message.
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Theoretically, a Season for Everything
The soul, says Amichai Yehuda in this Rosh Hashanah poem, knows that, for everything there is a season. The body, on the other hand, gets the seasons all muddled up.
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