As I look out over the crowd, perhaps it is from exhaustion that I feel my heart fill almost to bursting. It is a moment of immeasurable, inexpressible wonder and joy. I am no longer myself. I feel as if my skin has opened and I am nowhere and everywhere, and everyone and everywhere and everything are part of me. Suddenly there are tears running down my cheeks. Why? Why the tears? Why the joy? I do not understand. All that comes to mind is the blessing that is life. Some may call it a mixed blessing, but for me—and you may well think of me as blind to reality—it is simply an uncountable
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