We degrade life by thinking about it - it's a 'bigger event' than we perceive it to be, in other words. It somehow becomes commonplace, unremarkable, only-to-be-expected, and so on. We might try to tell ourselves that life a big...
Newness is an interesting thing, if we can get away with calling it ‘a thing’. When we use the word ‘newness’ we automatically feel that we have some kind of handle on it (which is of course true for anything...