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Lightly Child, Lightly.

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“And what is time?
A child at play, now arranging his pebbles, now scattering them.”

— Heraclitus, Fragment 79 as collected by Lucianus in Vitarum Auctio 14 and translated by G. T. W. Patrick (1988)

 

Notes:

  • Photo: “The Hand Chaser” by Marta Everest (via Newthom.com). Quote: Journal of a Nobody
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  • 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.

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Inevitably alchemy, the lesser into the greater,
morphing to the pupa stage, the chrysalis,
but faster, the cuticle of skin sloughed off,
regrown, and shed again, each larval, instar
meta phase passing through more molting lives
than saints — five, six times before the final birth,
then into the light, like eyes wadded up, then slowly,
with the blood, wings opening. Opening and closing.

— Stanley Plumly, from “Butterflies,” Old Heart: Poems.

Notes:

  • Quote: Vale of Soul Making.  Photo: Brooke Shaden with Season Changing
  • 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.”