You get a double whammy in this Writer’s Almanac:

First Garrison Keillor reads a drop of wisdom from poet Carolyn Forché: “No one is a great poet because she is a miserable drunk. No one is a great poet because he has had a nervous breakdown. Suffering, however, can be experienced as a curse or a blessing; the luckiest is the one who can experience it as a blessing.”

And then the poem for the day, “A Sighting” by Connie Wanek, takes us for a moment into the other world.