Loneliness

RIC_1207-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I

     learned to assume that loneliness should be in part

     pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying, and that it is even a

     truer bond among people than any kind of proximity. 

       Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books