The Three Ways to Love What Is Mortal

Ralka: How many moments are we really inhabiting that tenderness, that responsiveness? Our habit is to forget or deny mortality, just to have our attention fixed on smaller things. We avoid the rawness of impermanence of loss by living in these dreams and trying to navigate and control things. And one way that we really avoid being honest with loss, until we get kind of slammed, usually, is that we're kind of on a project of grabbing pleasures wherever we can.