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It is rare for a thing to be described purely for what it is, undecorated by what we could easily confuse it to be while carrying on our distracted lives. Like looking through a window cleaned of dust and fog for the first time after many seasons, clarity in and of itself can be striking in a way that stays with you. I recently came upon a letter by late physicist Richard Feynman to his wife, who passed away at an early age of 25. He wrote it not quite two years after her passing, and kept it until his own death. The letter is beautiful and consuming and worth reading in its entirety. I was particularly taken by the way Feynman wrote of their love – laid bare, apart from desire or passion or dedication, only in its purity. The transparency with which he writes stuck with me. I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead – but I still want to comfort and take care of you – and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discus

It is rare for a thing to be described purely for what it is, undecorated by what we could easily confuse it to be while carrying on our distracted lives. Like looking through a window cleaned of dust and fog for the first time after many seasons, clarity in and of itself can be striking in a way that stays with you. I recently came upon a letter by late physicist Richard Feynman to his wife, who passed away at an early age of 25. He wrote it not quite two years after her passing, and kept it until his own death. The letter is beautiful and consuming and worth reading in its entirety. I was pa

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