Mord

My friends, it is a dark time now, and history is very long, but that is little comfort for those living through it. A year can be no time at all, but a minute can be an eternity. But civilization is a great work, and kindness is a great work, and decency is a great work. It is not given to any one of us, no matter how long-lived, to see that work to the end. But neither may we give up working on it. There is a proverb of a great people that translates, inelegantly. It says, that if you are planting seeds and you learn that the world will end tomorrow, keep planting. I promise you, that the seeds we plant now matter. If you do not have faith in gods or saints, have faith in each other, and in us. ... You are not alone.