True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again

Climbing the Andes one windy January afternoon, watching peak after peek emerge on the horizon like giant mounds of moss, I found myself wondering about the clear line toward the top where the green ends and the reddish-brown of the barren rock begins, wondering how the trees and shrubs know when to stop, how far to keep pushing, where the point is past which the conditions become too inhospitable for growth, for flourishing, for survival. This may be the hardest equation to balance in all of existence: when to keep trying and when to stop. Nowhere is it more confounding,… read article