Days That Pass Through Me

Days That Pass Through Me

To become aware of time, to enrich the passing days with mindfulness, to make them meaningful, beautiful, and enjoyable—or to feel their weight and burdens and render them accountable—is no easy task. Yet being human is, in part, accepting precisely this responsibility.

Those who speak of the blessings and abundance of the day and of time itself are perhaps pointing to this very awareness. I once heard the phrase, “May one of your days be worth a thousand,” from a village woman whose face seemed illuminated with light and whose lips were full of prayers. She spoke it as a heartfelt farewell, with sincere enthusiasm, while looking toward a child and at a sky just beginning to brighten with dawn.

And then there is the saying, “A day stretches and becomes a century.”

The essays collected in this book were written to honor certain important notes inherited from history, to transform them into subjects of reflection and perhaps discussion, and to extend them into the present—to make them part of our own time.

Will you, too, take ownership of these questions?

Will the past continue to live within the present?

Author: İsmail Kara

Publisher: Dergah Publications

ISBN: 9786258437454

Binding: Paperback

Language: Turkish

Dimensions: 13.5 × 21 cm

Page Count: 347 pages