"We live longer, but less precisely and in shorter sentences"

October Reflections on the New Chapters

We all, sooner or later, lay our eyes on a calendar where “Darling Me” stands marked somewhere in the middle of an optimistic life expectancy, though I know better than to trust the exact date. I’m ahead of schedule by nearly a week, yet my gut instinct tells me it’s not really the halfway point—it never is.

Wislawa Szymborska once observed, "Żyjemy dłu…