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“The Layers” by Stanley Kunitz, read by Stanley Kunitz–afterward by Sher Schwartz
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6 responses to ““The Layers” by Stanley Kunitz, read by Stanley Kunitz–afterward by Sher Schwartz”
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Thanks for sharing your reflections. I love how wide and broad you responded to this poem. Offers a view I had not considered. Thanks again….
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I’m so glad you got a chance to listen to this poem. I thought of you when recording the clip! I agree it is uplifting even if elegiac in other tones. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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As I age, it’s hard not to take account on a more frequent basis of the losses – losses of people yes, but also what feel like losses as new chapters unfold. Children growing up and moving on, careers changing and ending. As an older person there are two phrases that resonate so strongly with me : How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses and every stone on the road precious to me. If we do not view the losses as something of a feast (to experience loss, after all, it means we have enjoyed something that is now lost), and if the stones on the road are not precious – then it is all just loss and that is unbearable.
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This is so beautifully expressed. An older man contacted me privately with very similar thoughts and feelings. Our aging gives us such perspective (let’s hope), and this is a blessing. Thanks for listening and commenting.
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