Lightly child, lightly.

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This is what I want.
I want to keep the past like a pearl on my tongue,
to inherit the salt in my skin. I want to learn how horizon can curve
back into itself so I can say what ocean says of wreckage: Dive into
my chest, stay as long as you can breathe, chart this hull of bones.

~ Bryce Emley, from “Everything All at Once (My Self as Ocean)

Notes:

  • Photo – mennyfox55. Poem: Memory’s Landscape
  • Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
  • Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”

 

24 thoughts on “Lightly child, lightly.”

    1. Your beauty reminds me of:

      We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself. For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termite-like.

      ~ Stefan Zweig, Confusion (NYRB Classics; Tra edition (July 25, 2012)

  6. “What ocean says of wreckage”,
    What ocean says of wreckage, wow!

    Wrote this down so I can keep reading it over and over, like pearls on the tongue.
    Precious pearls.

  11. I may well be incorrect when it comes to biology and math but I do have some thoughts…// “how horizon can curve back into itself” a circle is a path that goes around a central point…an individual is the center, (like the nucleus is the control center of the cell)….while the area outside the cell’s center is the mitochondria that powers advancement of the cell,… starting at the center of a circle. every point along the circle is equal distance from the center.. the circle, like a cell contains…the cell wall’s membrane allows flow in and out and the cell,..influences, impact the division & replication of the cell and can be beneficial or disruptive…while the circle is all encompassing, other circles can overlap…(think Venn Diagram) these overlapping intersections, (experiences) influence journey…learning from the experiences (“keep the past like a pearl on my tongue”) is a building point and adds to circle growing from the center outward, expanding …we breath, fully engulfed having no control, as long ago our life was charted, as we were knitted in the womb…(some school of thought a circle is considered infinite, boundless) I think our heart’s capacity to love and our soul’s depth of passionate wisdom, are boundless…

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