follow a given course blindly. I do believe that we cannot know what will happen next, and so we should make the most of what we have, taking our happy times as they come, meeting the troubles and sorrows as they come without seeking to know what tomorrow will bring. That may just be a childish refusal to face the future, but I cannot help thinking of a children’s story by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, which ended with one character saying, “Live while you live, then die and be done with it.”
I would like to say that I believe in the immortality of the soul, but I’m not sure that I do. That concept is at the foundation of the Christian religion, and I cannot say that my religion was a tremendous help to me at the start. At first, I was far too bitter to find any comfort there, but now I