Sublime

life

ways of living

For the first two decades of life, we are pushed along a straight and wide river. But, somewhere around age 20, we get spit out and left to cross an unknown sea without any prescribed path or good guidance.

designing a life

Natalie Audelo • 4 cards

Superficial Life

Jagad • 2 cards

It comes free with a splash, a pink jewel, a miracle that something so beautiful can emerge from water so murky.

Abraham Verghese • The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)

I would like to be like the fox, earnest in devotion and humor both, or the brave, compliant pond shutting its heavy door for the long winter. But, not yet have I reached that bright life or that white happiness—not yet.

Mary Oliver • Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

Now moons decline and rise, Dead metaphors that looked alive. And you about to die Out past the water-clock of tides Naming and renaming your desires. You rode in wind And scarred the cheek Like the edge of an autumn leaf. I put you in your hollow ship With wine and bread to drift The wine-dark sea. You put me In my hollow ship. A memorized part of