Tag Archives: Life

“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”

-Bryan White
Posted on January 18, 2013 by Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

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Tinkers, by Paul Harding

The Pulitzer Prize winning novel about life, death, and memory
Posted on November 30, 2012 by Katie Ryan (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

It begins, “George Washington Crosby began to hallucinate eight days before he died.”  From there, we enter a beautiful, chaotic world that spans generations.  Paul Harding creates a web of characters that compliment one another while illuminating life’s most profound … Continue reading →

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“The Denial of Death,” by Ernest Becker

How the fact of death powers the human drive to life
Posted on July 6, 2012 by Antal Polony (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

During our childhood, gradually through observation then perhaps all at once through our parents’ telling, we all come to learn that our life will not last forever. We become aware of death. Oftentimes, when we face death in our adult … Continue reading →

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“The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.”

— Joan Borysenko
Posted on June 12, 2012 by Antal Polony (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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“It’s Just a Ride” – Bill Hicks’ theory of life

In life, we have a "choice between fear and love," says the late philosophical comedian.
Posted on June 8, 2012 by Dana Sitar (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.”

-Jonathan Swift
Posted on May 22, 2012 by Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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