“A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle, the total golden tender presence of God everywhere, a pond over there, a beautiful field there, and some hills for people who like to hike, and this expansiveness in every direction of sky and light and physical beauty. And there is this section separated from the rest; it has beautiful high walls. The man who's just come to heaven says, "What's over there?" The angel says, "That's for the fundamentalists. They don't consider it heaven if anyone else got in.” PeopleIfsMenLightBeautifulDiesHeavenSkyFieldsHe ManSweetWallAngelGoldenHillsGentleSectionsPondsPresence Of GodPhysical BeautyExpansiveness Author:Anne Lamott
“The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.” LifeTwoCountryHumanityDiesSkyBrokenBlueHillsBrownBlue SkyHensCountry LifeCartwheels Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens