“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. … Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing.” — Miranda July
Here’s an honest, no holes barred video about the hard work of choosing, about breaking out of the aggressive self-absorption tendencies of life. “This is water” is an excerpt from an address to the graduating class of 2005 of Kenyon College by David Foster Wallace.
It was scrumptious to spend a recent Sunday afternoon reading Anne Lamott again. It has been a few years since I’ve read anything by her and it was so good to revisit a few of her main themes – humility and grace.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts…
“My Lord God I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
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