In Conversation

From Late to This, where you’re not late to this, you’re right on time.

Authors on book tour often join each other “in conversation” for events. I enjoyed several such events in the spring, when Imagine Your Life Like This was released, and now I’m gearing up for fall readings and literary festivals. If books toured together, I imagine Bittersweet and Enchantment having a chat. Interesting products of our time, and also antidotes to some of the less pleasant features of our time, particularly related to time and where we put our attention and how we live our lives.

Artwork found at Michael’s: “I am very busy”

Briefly excerpted:

“This book is about the melancholic direction, which I call the ‘bittersweet’: a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. The bittersweet is also about the recognition that light and dark, birth and death — bitter and sweet — are forever paired.” — Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

“When I try to understand what it is that I believe, I’m like a child caught in play. There is no solidity. Sensation gathers in my peripheral vision, but dissipates when I turn to look at it…