We are looking for new spaces, but what we are really looking for is retreat, clarity, to escape our internal chaos.
For the days not to feel glued together.
— Kate Zambreno, Drifts: A Novel (Penguin, May 19, 2020)
Notes:
- Photo: Image source here. (via Mennyfox55)
- 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.”
Two MAGIC sentences.
I will have to copy those two sentences and stick them to a place where I see them – they dearly, clearly, distinctively speak to me.
Paired with a sensuous photo – would have wished you giving us some more info from that cyrillic page 😉
Cyrillic page????
Cyrillic letters, signs, nothing I can read – and you probably can’t either…. 😉
Awwwwwww, and you are totally correct!
A new word for David’s dictionary!
I’m certainly not on the high intellectual plane you ladies fly on.
Now, now… don’t go there. We are all learning something new all the time 😉
I, as a non-english individual, always marvel at my knowledge – LOLOLOLOLOOOOL….. and also, Dave is such a terrifically clever, well turned out individual and still has a few white spots in his dictionary 😉
In all fairness,, you and I have the added benefit of knowing more than one language – this gives us even more words that may be used in one or another language more regularly. And we all have white spots in our dictionary!
David is very clever and not afraid to say when he doesn’t know something and even shares with us that he has looked it up. Gotta give him big kudos for that 😉
sure – and this humbleness makes him even dearer to us, right?! 😉
Exactomundo… but we best not tell him, he’ll get a swelled head 😉
Hmmmm
He he he
Hmmmm
Not very talkative today, are you, my friend! 🙂
Hmmmm
So very clever.
Now now…. now you’re being fastidious!
Not clever, just language crazy! 😉
“He who looks inside awakens.” Carl Jung
So true 👏
Wow Jung. Deep. Jung so early in the morning.
Love Jung anytime of day! 😏
Laughing. Of course you do. Kafka for dessert?
How did you know?
that describes it so well –
It is…
“For the days not to feel glued together.” Such an intriguing, poetic way to describe this curious interstices we find ourselves in….
It really is…
The chaos is internal.
And the retreat is internal!
Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!
This is a great quote!!
And it describes most of my inner life right now. Wow.
Thank you.
Mine Too!
“For the days not to feel glued together.” And don’t they so feel like that sometimes?
In COVID-19 world, many days feel glued these days.
That is for sure, especially when I wasn’t working. Harder to unstick the days when working from home, like you, I bet. Why your morning walks are so important now…
Since I started at the golf, there is that jolt of reality that comes to shake things up. Gawd, I can’t wait, already, for October 16…
Me too. Me too.
You too. You too… what?
Had to pop back to those two sentences – they’re simply perfect.
(and pls, don’t take our kind poking serious, you know that we know that you’re near perfect too!!!!!)
Hmmmm
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Indeed!! … ” … to escape our internal chaos. For the days not to feel glued together.” Kate Zambreno, Drifts: A Novel (Penguin, May 19, 2020).
They really are wonderful lines 💕
They are!
a new bathroom might do the trick… 🙂
Laughing!
You are an inspirational writer. I do so enjoy your posts.
Thank you Kally!