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In response to the question "What is preoccupying you at the moment?," I was surprised by what I wanted to confess: I am worried about having no spiritual resources to shore myself up against the inevitable future grief of losing somebody I love, I wrote.
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When I was in my twenties, I could spend a weekend down the shore, gorge myself on beer and pizza and put on ten pounds.
What, to me, seems even more surprising is that Newton, who supposedly described his life as "like a boy playing on the sea-shore diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell", hasn't made much more of a splash in popular culture.
As the great composer Aaron Copeland once said, when asked "Why do you compose again, after you have already written something so beautiful?": "I create to arrive at the far and distant shores of myself, to discover the parts of me I have not met".
Soon after being deposited at the lake shore, I found myself balancing above the water on a narrow plank, halfway between a concrete jetty and the roof of a rickety wooden boat called the Mozorola.
I wrangled boat and dog to the opposite shore, and quickly got myself composed and back on the river.
During my time at her shore house, I found myself strolling along the beach for years before my second child came along and know that this time alone wasn't a coincidence.
In a later memoir, Newton wrote: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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