Anna B
@annabwriting
Anna B
#mindfullness #spirituality #respect
‘ From my first meetings with World Weary Woman, it was clear that she could work. She could analyze, psychologize. But she had not learned how to play ... It is in pausing to connect with her own inner wisdom that World Weary Woman learns to create ... to cultivate what brings joy, to savour her connection with cosmos. Thus she transforms her... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife
On the one hand: “Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose exacts
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
It is the highest thing. Jesus agrees, proclaiming himself at John 14:6 to be the way, the truth and the life.
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
ou can hear in the delaying rhythms of the opening sentence the influence of Marcel Proust and the digressive, paid-by-the-word style of Thomas De Quincey, whose essays Woolf had lately looked into for the first time
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.
Thomas Chatterton Williams • The People Who Don’t Read Books
So what would a prose literature devoted to illness sound like? Perhaps it could only exist in the form of the essay, of which genre Woolf’s opening sentence is both an elegant part-for-whole and a less than obvious parody.
