Our Souls at Night

by Kent Haruf

I told you I don’t want to live like that anymore—for other people, what they think, what they believe. I don’t think it’s the way to live. It isn’t for me anyway.

I’ve come to believe in some kind of afterlife. A return to our true selves, a spirit self. We’re just in this physical body till we go back to spirit.

No. Hell. I just want to live simply and pay attention to what’s happening each day. And come sleep with you at night.

Oh I feel better already talking with you here next to me. We haven’t even said much of anything yet. But I do feel better already. I thank you for that. I’m grateful for all of this. I feel very fortunate again now.