For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.
Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.
We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents. . . for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn. . . and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.
Beliefs help us tap the richest resources deep within us, creating & directing these resources to support our desired outcome
I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.
I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones. ' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.