Vonnegut, you will always be my favorite human.
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
...
"My late Uncle Alex Vonnegut, my father's kid brother, a Harvard-educated life insurance agent in Indianapolis who was well read and wise, was a humanist like all the rest of the family. What Uncle Alex found particularly objectionable about human beings in general was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy.
He himself did his best to acknowledge it when
times were sweet. We could be drinking lemonade in
the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and
Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, "If
this isn't nice, what is?"
I myself say that out loud at times of easy, natural
bliss: "If this isn't nice, what is?" Perhaps others can
also make use of that heirloom from Uncle Alex. I find
it really cheers me up to keep score out loud that way."
In which I shamelessly abuse the internet.
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