The Bird That Is Your Life

The great danger is to stand motionless on the bank as the river of your life rushes by. It is not easy, learning how to stop waiting and start living; not easy not to waste your life; not easy knowing whether or not how you spend your time and mind and love is worthy of the improbable fact that you, against the vastly greater odds otherwise, exist. And yet to the unnerving question pulsating beneath everything — Why you? — the only answer is your life, lived. Emily Ogden hones the blade of that question in the very first sentence… read article