Tag: Meditation on Death

• March 21, 2014

  Kissing a ‘thing which is human’

  1 At bedtime, I lie on my side, facing her. Her hand is so warm, rough from climbing. 2 After I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I lie back down and listen. There: her breath. 3 Epicetus says, ‘If you kiss your wife, say you only kiss a thing which is human.…