April 27, 2021
Gleanings
- Knowing what scientists still want to learn shows us how far we’ve come — and how far we have left to go to solve the mysteries of SARS-2 and Covid-19.
- I read Christa Couture’s memoir, How To Lose Everything, last night. It’s remarkable. And what I did afterwards was count everything I hadn’t lost, everything I was grateful for, and I ran out of fingers.
- There seemed to be a sense of collective action, generational solidarity and palpable joy at the opportunity to get the vaccine — and a sense of pride in rising to the occasion and in being a generation that firmly believes in science.
- Perhaps that’s the central challenge of being an artist: staying true to our work, even when we’re not certain that anyone will see it, or listen to it or read it. Having no guarantee that what we make, makes a difference.
- By all means tell me that you like it, and better yet tell me what you like about it, but I don’t enjoy replies that sound as if they are correcting my “mistake.”
- Something magical happens when seasons meet, like a gust of hot October wind lifting Autumn leaves off the pavement.
- I know I write the same things every year, how I go out to the garden and the apple tree is just beginning to bloom…and I know that there is a kind of sameness to my posts. But honestly? Is there a way to say how you forget, almost, over the dark winter days and nights, how lovely apple blossom is when you see the first tight clumps begin to open…
- I call it our house by the sea, but in this season of snowmelt, it’s our house by the hills.
- Find some space where you’re full aware that you’re not an employee, but rather luminous bits of the sun.
- So now it’s like, holy crap. How are my boyfriend and I ever going to last if we have to plan getaways around my damn PMS? How are we ever going to live together?!? Will I need to build my own 1-person PMS hut behind the main house and outfit it like a bunker, but it’s purpose is the safety and survival of people on the OUTSIDE?!?
- I want to behave virtuously and generously. I’d like to become wise. I do believe in the principle of developing skillful qualities and abandoning the unskilled but it’s proving to be a lengthy process. It is a goal. It is motivation.
- I’m finding that making things helps. Last week I made a cake, an entirely unnecessary cake, but one H. would have liked and one I could share, not to mention eat slowly myself.
- So there are always words – even when I struggle to find them.
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wow, there are some humdingers in here!