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SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022
- "“How do you pass the time?” suggests the basic model of existence, in which living a life is seen on the one hand as traversing an unspecified span of time—marked out in years—and on the other, as moving through the natural cycle of hours, from dawn to dusk. Time, then, is understood to be a medium one negotiates. And in this respect: how do I p... See more
Lapham's Quarterly • Strange Days | Sven Birkerts
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What we’re mostly doing at this time in our lives, then, is looking for a story to draw together the messy fragments of everything that’s happened to us and defined us up until now. We need to transform the story we tell about ourselves, to find a story in which we have more agency – and more purpose. The problem is that, in the culture we currentl... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife
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I’m writing this installment with the themes of the last—exhaustion, burnout, tiredness, rest—still in mind. There are so many reasons why any of us might feel exhausted and depleted, but just now I find myself wondering how much of it is the result of aimless labors that serve only the operations of a techno-economic system designed to offer us ev
... See moretheconvivialsociety.substack.com • Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
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This is the quiet art of living well. It does not demand that we abandon the world, but that we engage with it more mindfully. It asks that we slow down, that we look more closely, that we listen more carefully. For in doing so, we discover that much of what we seek—clarity, peace, even strength—was always within reach. It was simply waiting for us
... See moreBill Wear • The Quiet Art of Attention
For many of us, time seems to slip through our fingers. We rush around in furious activity but at the end of the day, what can we say we did? It’s all a blur. We’re swept along in the river of experience, immersed in what’s happening, at the mercy of every passing demand, whether from inside ourselves or from others.
Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time
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As humans we’ve long been forged on the anvil of the mysteries: Why are we here? Why do we die? What is love? We are tuned like a cello to vibrate with such questions. What is entirely new is the amount of information we are receiving from all over the planet. So we don’t just receive stress on a localized, human level, we mainline it from a huge, ... See more
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
