June 1, 2021
Gleanings
- But this time, I got caught up in a sense of hope and promise. It seemed impossible not to.
- It was a Joyspotting day again and nothing says joy to me like a wild daisy.
- When you swim regularly, you need it. You need the feeling of your aging body in water, you need the buoyancy, the silkiness as you reach out your arms to propel yourself forward and back.
- I’m quitting the pandemic to attend to the hum of the universe, to get back to universe mind.
- However, heartened and emboldened by my new paper doll, and by Julia Berick’s introduction that insists that Franny and Zooey holds up very well indeed, thank you very much, I have embarked at long last on a re-read. And I still love it. Phew.
- There is so much I wish I’d known when we started; there is so much I have learned.
- Stepping outside of ourselves and reaching towards other people and beings, especially by trying to be useful to them in some way, is a powerful antidote to capitalism that brings the relief of contentment.
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