Pondering how to live well
Poem
If I can stop one heart from breaking
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Listen
Read by Olivier Holmey
Music
Gabriel’s Oboe
Ennio Morricone
Image
The Railway, Edouard Manet
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington