The Future

"Are we in for a surprise?
  The future is like magic.  It wears no robes or veils but arrives naked,
tossing its surprises to the right and the left.  How does it arrive? It
neither comes from ahead nor do we enter it running.  This is because
it and we can only approach what is always coming toward it and us.
There is no possible action or sound that can be made without being
received elsewhere, thereby describing and deciding the future which
only wears the attributes of something recognized as past.
   Is there such a thing as truth objectively speaking?  This question
curves around and demands that I ask myself why I am asking the
question in the first place, what good an answer will do for me before
I am annihilated.  If I am convinced tha the story of your life and
thought reveals the truth about our condition on this planet, then
wil I be happier as I proceed? Why else am I asking it?"

-Excerpted from The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation by Fanny Howe