

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2022
“Life in our mortal flesh is beautifully “unfinished”, like certain works of art precisely due to their incompleteness have a unique charm. Because life down here is an “initiation”, not the fulfilment. We come into the world just like this, like real people, like people who advance in age but who are always real.”
Pope Francis
Joyce Carol Oates
Poetry Almanac June 16, 2011
Are you real?
She once said, “A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed,
of necessity, a hide like a rhino’s,
While inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.”