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Hi - Tommy I wonder if you’d heard this conversation with Nick Cave - touches intelligently and movingly on the death of his son and his relationship to Jesus and faith. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unherd-with-freddie-sayers/id1540134798?i=1000607900663

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Another touching and thought provoking piece. I sometimes think about what it would be like if one of my children were to die and generally end of imagining I'd go into self destructive craziness. For you with your lineage to have achieved such a balanced place after the loss of your firstborn leave me in some degree of awe.

That said I found consolation in (what I think is) Camus' resolution of the Sisyphyean question - that one can accept life the universe and everything is random/ meaningless and just get on with it as best we can with a cheery whistle. I like the idea that we humans and our planet and our hubris are random flecks of dust in totality of what is out there. Apologies if this is totally facial - I struggle to express stuff like this clearly .

And I can't yet find a place on Substack to formally acknowledge your generous and exquisitely written recommendation - so thank you for that. In particular I enjoyed 'sly wit' - such a pretty construction.

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