There is nothing more liberating than to realize you don’t have to live up to anything anymore.
— Betty Broderick, Dirty John (Netflix, S2:E6, The Twelfth of Never)
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Tag: let go
Lightly Child, Lightly.
Notes:
- Photo: Thomas Turowski (via Newthom)
- 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.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Notes:
- Quote Source: WeltenWellen
- 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.
— Ono No Komachi, tr. by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Oratani, from The Ink Dark Moon Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
Notes:
- Photo: DK, Daybreak. 7:02 am. Jan 28, 2020. 26° F, feels like 15° F, wind gusts up to 26 mph. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
- Quote Source: Feral-ballad
- 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 wind is careless—
uncertain—
I like the wind—
it seems more like me than anything else—
I like the way it blows things around—roughly—even meanly—
then the next minute seems to love everything—some days is amazingly quiet.
— Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Alfred Stieglitz on October 1, 1917 in: ”My Faraway One. Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Volume 1, 1915–1933”
Notes:
- Photo: DK, Daybreak. December 30, 2020. 6:50 am. 25° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford CT. Yesterday was one of those “amazingly quiet (and spectacularly beautiful) mornings” where “the wind seemed to love everything.” Check out more pictures here from 6:30 to 7:00 pm and here from 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm.
- Georgia OKeeffe quote via finita–la–commedia)
- 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.”