In his new book, The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise, travel writer Pico Iyer chronicles a lifetime of pilgrimages to some of Earth’s greatest shrines.

Cited in The Maginalian writing blog, the reviewer comments on Iyer’s visit to a cemetery atop a sacred mountain three hours from his home in Japan, accompanied by the poems of Emily Dickinson. There, he ‘’arrives at the deepest yearning of our paradisal pursuits while walking the ghostly cemetery, aware that in the Japanese vision of an afterlife, the transience of things — the transience of us — is ‘not a cause for grief so much as a summons to attention.’’’

Iyer reflects: ‘’The thought that we must die, I might have heard the two hundred thousand graves saying, is the reason we must live well.’’

That thought deeply reasonated with me, a person living daily with two cancers, a person who is fully grateful for each new day of life and who tries his best to use his time well. We must not take time for granted.

Do Iyer’s words touch you, too?

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`It’s Okay to Doodle Saturday Away – Afterall, It’s Your Day to Enjoy`

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