Paradise

This life, this lovely, rich earth, may be Paradise, the best of all possible worlds: complex as it is spectacular. So ugliness mixes in beauty, pain in life, cruelty in compassion. So Hell too, stirred in maddeningly- and all changed by us. Why would that not be, if one surrenders the pretty ideas of permanence and metaphysical justice? Eden then is here, a paradise demanding tending, cultivation, and much work