Tue 17 Apr 2018

Sloth

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Random quote of the day:

“Sloth in writers is always a symptom of an acute inner conflict, especially that laziness which renders them incapable of doing the thing which they are most looking forward to.”

—Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise”

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Mon 16 Apr 2018

Poetry project, phase two, week five: spring

Posted by PJ under poetry, poetry project, spring
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Poetry is not personal.

And so, the spring!
Green grass, fog, blossoms,
the daffodils headless
after the gardener passed through.

Birdsong, God yes, birdsong,
morning, noon, twilight,
even a damned nightingale
passing through on its way
from point A to points farther north.

The crack of the bat,
the smell of the crowd,
young bodies turning to fancy,
fancy bodies turning to fever.

Bleating lambs with gay
red X’s spray painted on their coats,
and orange tags stapled to their ears,
frolicking and jumping while
they still have a chance
to be something more than chops.

And so, the spring!
(Nothing personal.)

 

*For the poetry project, phase one go here.

*For a definition of Phase 2, go here.

*To see all the poems in one place go here.

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Mon 16 Apr 2018

Human hearts

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Random quote of the day:

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart!”

—Henry James, “Louisa Pallant”

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Fri 13 Apr 2018

Growing pains

Posted by PJ under growth, quote of the day, self-knowledge, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“Increasingly I have come to realize that spiritual growth and unfolding is sometimes psychically and emotionally painful. Pricking [by thorns], and the realization of being wrong, are themselves metaphors for the challenges and pains of self-discovery.”

—Dennis Gaffin, Running with the Fairies: Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion

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Thu 12 Apr 2018

Non-rational

Posted by PJ under mysticism, quote of the day, rationality, thinking
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Random quote of the day:

“Any profound view of the universe is mystic in that it brings men into spiritual relationship with the Infinite….Rational thinking, if it goes deep, ends of necessity in the irrational realm of mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are non-rational entities.”

—Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought (tr. Antje Bultmann Lemke)

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Wed 11 Apr 2018

Fantastic

Posted by PJ under fantasy, imagination, quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“The fantastic is what you imagine, but as soon as you do a fantastic thing, it’s no longer fantastic, it becomes real.”

—Jean Rhys, The Paris Review, Fall 1979, No. 76

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Tue 10 Apr 2018

Skeptic

Posted by PJ under belief, quote of the day, skepticism
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Random quote of the day:

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

—Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words

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Mon 9 Apr 2018

Poetry project, phase 2, week four: Boot straps

Posted by PJ under necessity, poetry, poetry project, the path, walking, witches
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Boot straps

Sometimes the wild creatures in your heart
get too scared, remain restless, hide away.
My mother the horse-whisperer would have
spoken gently, stroking calmness back into
those creatures, and walked them through
the fear.

Sometimes you don’t have to put the bucket
far down the well before it fills.
Other times you hit the rocky bottom.
My grandfather, the water witch, would have
gotten out the willow rod and paced the land
to find a new well.

Sometimes you need to heal but it takes so long
and the medicine you need is so hard to find.
My great-grandmother the herb witch
would have walked the hills until she found
what she needed.

Sometimes you just have to pick yourself up
and do what needs doing.
Only you can find what you need,
only you can recognize the magic
when you see it.

Generations behind point me to the path.
But only I will recognize the magic when I see it.
And I must walk the walk.

 

*For the poetry project, phase one go here.

*For a definition of Phase 2, go here.

*To see all the poems in one place go here.

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Mon 9 Apr 2018

Word made flesh

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the self, words
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Random quote of the day:

“Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”

—Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

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Fri 6 Apr 2018

Hunger

Posted by PJ under hunger, quote of the day, soul
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Random quote of the day:

“The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.”

—Simone Weil, “Forms of the Implicit Love of God,” Waiting for God (tr. Emma Craufurd)

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