Yesterday, I opened my mailbox to find a letter with my name on it written in blue marker.

Inside was an article titled: Is God Happy? which was written by the Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski in 1998. It was recently republished by the New York Review of Books. On the top of the article, Kołakowski was underlined, and next to it someone had written: "any relation?". -Not that I know of.

Oddly, also inside the envelope was the card of a funeral director for a local funeral home. I don't know the director, and had never visited the funeral home.

I was bit mystified, and just a little freaked out. Funny, while reading this article, a balloon my daughter had been playing with earlier suddenly burst, and I jumped.

My wife later told me that she saw our neighbor drop something in our mailbox. I can only assume that she accidentally included the funeral director's card in the envelope.

At any rate, it's not a bad read. Here is the article.