There is comfort in …

• having a good bed in a fireproof hotel.
• reflecting that it might have been worse.
• knowing we are not alone in our anonymity.
• a mother's caress.
• a stranger.
• the strength of love.
• the knowledge that evil is but temporary.
• the perception that we are all in this chaos together.
• using a procedure that gives definitive answers from confusing data.
• business as usual.
• the womb.
• being with those with whom we have spent pleasant and meaningful days.
• knowing the impermanence of all these conditions.
• church light, which is star light incarnate.
• the knowledge that the other shore has already been reached.
• a circumscribed life.
• numbers.
• a hermetic, tidy account of the past, and comfort too in a measured and recognizable voice, leading us through those long ago and lost intricacies.