Good life, Thinking

The profound pleasures of simple things

In a sentiment evocative of Kurt Vonnegut’s short poem about the secret of happiness and of Viktor Frankl’s hard-earned conviction that “everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances,” Berry adds: > In these times one contemplates it with the same sense of hope with which one contemplates the sunrise or the coming of spring: the…