I'm Reading Philip Whalen...

when a rush of well-being comes over me. These occurrences -- while reading -- have been rare of late. Right now I would settle for a simple bit of steady state okay-ness or a feeling of perspective on the world and life that included the finality of it all -- not to be confused with a sense of doom, which is always lurking -- but of the demagnified look our day-to-day problems have in the context of a whole life trying to be well-lived.