Dinner Party
I’m hosting a small dinner party tonight, and all day I’ve had Mrs. Dalloway on the brain. And so, I offer a quote, which perfectly captures the feeling of spring:
“To watch a leaf quivering in the rush of air was an exquisite joy…and the sun spotting now this leaf, now that, in mockery, dazzling it with soft gold in pure good temper; and now and again some chime (it might be a motor horn) tingling divinely on the grass stalks – all of this, calm and reasonable as it was, made out of ordinary things as it was, was the truth now; beauty, that was the truth now. Beauty was everywhere.”
May you find beauty everywhere on this April evening.
“It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.”
…a silly, silly dream…
Words of Wisdom
“Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are.”
- Proverb
Are You Having Fun?
Sad birthday
“If it’s not fun, why do it?” – Ben and Jerry
“If you aren’t having fun, it’s your fault.” – My friend Zack
Is life about having fun?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, especially in the context of my yoga practice — which, as I’ve said before, is a template for how I live. (more…)
Individuality
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security,. . . but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures and rides it, in grace and love and wit.”
-Tom Robbins
The Tonic of Wildness
Costa Rica sunrise
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
- Henry David Thoreau
