I remain (at best) agnostic about immortality; the beloved community is enough for me. The task is not to perpetuate or renew activities that in another time of life produced the most vivid sense of the great beauty, but to pay attention, to “listen up” to where it appears now. To exercise and strengthen these connections. To leave old ones courageously, grateful for them, but not clinging to them. To go on, not to go back. No hanging on by fingernails to a method useful in the past, but recognizing