Magical Internet Mourning
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.
Last night
I fell asleep
reading a paperback
left me by my darling Koz.
11 years, one day
ago,
Another thing
we would never share.
This morning I checked out the author,
who died six months
before Koz
and followed Peter McWilliams
to “Joy is Good.”
"Joy" quoted Joseph Addison:
Mirth is like a flash of lightning,
that breaks through a gloom of clouds,
and glitters for a moment;
cheerfulness keeps up a kind of
daylight in the mind,
and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joy took me
to Wikipedia’s Joseph Addison,
who died at 47,
like Koz.
Despite “invincible shyness”
and family trouble later in life,
Addison helped launch
the Kitcat Cub,
The Guardian
and the War of Independence.
Create Addison-page Wikilink
to “Lord Macaulay.”
Macaulay opined, long after Addison’s death, he was
...sound in the noble parts,
free from all taint of perfidy, of cowardice, of cruelty, of ingratitude, of envy.
Men may easily be named, in whom some particular good disposition
has been more conspicuous than in Addison.
But the just harmony of qualities,
the exact temper between the stern and the humane virtues,
the habitual observance of every law...
moral rectitude...
moral grace and dignity,
distinguish him from all men ...
tried by equally strong temptations...
Me
back to work