The World as Work of Art

Except from my new book, 2012 Revisited, available here.

The following is excerpted from 2012 Revisited, a new book available on Amazon. Pick up a copy here.

When I think about the catastrophe roaring toward us, for some reason I keep recalling a passage from Virginia Woolf, one of my favorite writers, in a memoir published after her death. Woolf found most of life to be forgettable, “cotton wool.” But the cotton wool is punctuated by moments of intensity. She believed…