Jesus says that if we follow him the cross will find us. That message is chronically misunderstood. Maybe we would understand it better if Jesus had worded it this way: the more sensitive you become, the more pain will seep into your life. We catch the connection then. Sensitive people suffer more deeply, just as they also drink in more deeply the joys and beauties of life. Pain enters them more deeply for the same reason that meaning does. They are open to it. The calloused (by definition) are spared of both deep pain and deep joy. With this as a backdrop I would like to introduce readers to a new book by Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. This book manifests a rare sensitivity.