Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it - Bono

I had with me a small battery-operated Sony system that I used to record thoughts and melodies, and I busied myself making a recording of the baby’s heartbeat, a low but significant rhythm being picked up by ultrasound. Maybe I’d write a song to the heartbeat one day. A creative thought designed to hold off my growing terror.

Bono era una abreviatura de Bono Vox of O’Connell Street, pero de chaval Guggi no era ningún erudito del latín. La asociación con «Buena Voz» fue una grata coincidencia.

The Franciscan friar Richard Rohr put it to me like this: “It’s our strengths rather than our weaknesses that often hold us back.