SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT PARADISE is a place, but I disagree. To me, it’s an idea, a state of mind, a delight that you can visit occasionally, when you want to. “The path to paradise,” said Dante, “begins in hell.” And we have all been there, the pain, the missed diagnoses, the hospital bed, the return to surgery. But fortunately, a side trip to paradise is always available with a little will and a bit of imagination. I was there just this morning, in fact, during my walk in the dark. I thought about the beach just over Blind Pass on Captiva Island and all the shells I collected there that are displayed now in a glass vase in my house. It was high tide and the miniature conch shells were abundant in three feet of warm Gulf water as a light breeze stirred the branches of the Australian pines. The great thing about paradise is that it can be there when you need it, just for a few minutes while some sadist dentist works on your root canal, or as a passing fancy while you suffer a humdrum day, or even in real life when you sip your coffee and realize, a smile of satisfaction on your face, that ‘it doesn’t get any better than this.’
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