Lightly Child, Lightly.

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Every leaf that falls
never stops falling. I once
thought that leaves were leaves.
Now I think they are feeling,
in search of a place—
someone’s hair, a park bench, a
finger. Isn’t that
like us, going from place to
place, looking to be alive?

— Victoria Chang, “Passage” in The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2022. (via Read a Little Poetry)

Notes:

  • Video: InnoRecords (via Pexels)
  • 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.

18 thoughts on “Lightly Child, Lightly.”

  2. wow, I literally just closed the door behind our present landlady (we‘re on a short holiday with private accommodation in the Bernese Alps) where we discussed how lives pass by like leaves falling…. She told me about her children‘s parcours and how none of them chose a ‚normal‘ way of living – and I said to her: Like leaves they fall in a destined way we don‘t know anything about.
    A wonderful video I‘d like to have as a screensaver – just for a while – so soothing, so quiet, so ethereal.

  8. Dear David, you have missed the Wednesday….where is camel? I forget days and always Tuesday being gone in my week, why I don’t know. Anyway, this great post, I loved so much, poem and video. Thank you, have a nice day, Love, nia

  12. I enjoyed be a witness to this beauty!!!
    PS Don’t tell me you missed the Hunter’s Moon, last night?
    Kindly, Christie

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