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Submitted by Keri Hulme on December 15, 2005 - 10:34am.

I've been out on the beach.
The surf was flickering, phosphoresent (the Maori for that is poroporotitiwai). A Hector's dolphin surfaced briefly, just seen beyond the bar, in the growing moon.
It's a mild early summer midnight, my family are all well, I've drunk a bottle of Lindauer, and the air smells truly salt and good.
A large green cockchafer just whirred by. I've smoked groper roes, steamed kumara, and spinach from my mother's garden for my dinner (you'll gather I'm not an early riser!) and a sup of 15yrold Laphroaig for my night cap.
The night is quiet - a koukou calling intermittently, and the brown treefrogs, newly returned from near extinction, are lowkey practising-
the point of this?
Despite major family illness & personal pain - LIFE IS, and is mainly good. And, even when it's bad, it's still life-
-and I am an extremely lucky human. I am also deeply aware that I am - and how much anguish there is in the world.
Luck - just is: okay, tomorrow may come in with a tsunami, an earthquake (I live very close to a major fault-line) or whirlwinds may happen or I may drop dead- change is all, everything flows, I'm a human, grateful for sunlight and for the dark; loving water and walking on sand-
all this joy, all this accumulating knowledge, all these relationships-no point to it, just the happenstance of it, and the human appreciation of it happening

and no gods or religion or spirituality anywhere-

cheers! Kia ora tatou - from A Happy Atheist

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