How do we know that what happens to us isn’t good?

Suspending our judgement and facing ourselves

Dear Friends,

How do we know that what happens to us isn’t good?

I’ve been turning this question over the past few weeks.

It’s the brilliant last line of a very short story by Amy Hempel:

I love how this story captures our instinct to label experiences as good or bad, helpful or harmful, without the author “telling” us what to think. Instead, the story ena…