Tabitha

“On this day of each year, Humanity wakes with the awakening of Spring, and stands crying below the suffering Nazarene” — Kahlil Gibran

I reminded him of a story from an ancient Chinese Zen master, of the Buddha coming upon some people who had just been robbed while picnicking. They were racing around, enraged, asking him to help them. But Buddha asks, “Who would you rather find, the burglars or yourself?”

Tim nodded, and then said, “The burglars.”

“Same.”

— Anne Lamott, Somehow (33-3