“DON’T YOU KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING?”: An amazing essay from Fr Richard Neuhaus, on a “near-life experience.” The reactions of others; the altar as “axis mundi”; the horrible noises of a hospital at night; the way that when you’re really sick you can’t imagine being well, and when you’re well you can’t imagine being really sick; the distance, but also the commonality. Sick and well feel like different species, but of course the latter is just the former without apprehension. And of course, the former can’t be expected to see it that way.