Category: Quotes

Lightly Child, Lightly.

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Still, ritual is journey, atonement is real.
As you lay dying, I asked,
What is your biggest regret?
Every kindness withheld, you said.
Every flicker of pleasure denied, you said.
Look, you said, sunlight.

— Chris Abani, from “Ritual Is Journey” in “Sanctificum” (Copper Canyon Press; April 1, 2010)

Notes:

  1. 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.
  2. Poem Source from orpheuslament
  3. Chris Abani bio and portrait via Poetry Foundation

Lightly Child, Lightly.

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how old am i?
today, i’m today.
i’m as old as whatever light touches me.

— Danez Smith, from “summer, somewhere“

Notes:

  1. And today, yes, yet another Time Lapse video with light progression that touched me — this despite near 100% cloud cover and light rain. 90 Minutes in 21 seconds (4:35 to 6:05 am). 64° F. August 8, 2024. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning’s walk here.
  2. Poem Source from “More Than Ideas“
  3. 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.

Lightly Child, Lightly. (The Darkness Around Us is Deep)

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Now I carry those days in a tiny box
wherever I go. I open the lid like this
and let the light glimpse and then glance away.
There is a sigh like my breath when I do this.
Some days I do this again and again.

— William Stafford, from “Remembering” in The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems.

Notes:

  • Poem Source: Thank you Beth via Alive on All Channels
  • Photo: DK 4:45am this morning at Cove Island Park. For more photos from this morning, click here.
  • Thursday Posts inspired by 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.

T.G.I.F. Oh, so true…

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I acknowledge there is no sweetness
that doesn’t leave a stain
no sweetness that’s ever sufficiently sweet …

— Stephen Dunn, from Sweetness in New and Selected Poems 1974-1994. (via @readalittlepoem)

And most recently, we’ve (aka “I”) been gorging on Brookside Dark Chocolate, Acai Blueberry by the handfuls…and can’t seem to get enough…

Light Child, Lightly.

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Moonlight flows…

I am like a gull

Lost between heaven and earth.

— Du Fu (712 A.D. to 770 AD), from “Night Thoughts While Traveling” in Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese 

Notes:

  • DK Moolight Video shot at 5:00 am. this morning at Cove Island Park. More pictures of the amazing full moon and clouds 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.