Insight

Yesterday's edition of "Dyspeptic Mutterings" has one of those pointed insights that occasionally come along to delight the day. You know the kind. The ones that illuminate something you didn't know needed illuminating. The ones that put into words a feeling you didn't know you had until you saw it expressed. For me, this is one of that kind:

1. Heather said the Holy Father's body looked unnerving. I agree, and that, too, is a tribute to him. Even in his weakness--his very weakest--he was fully alive. You only notice that witness now that he's gone.

Yes, exactly.