Here is your empty space.
What will you do with your own fresh start?
~ Jason B. Rosenthal (The New York Times, June 15, 2018)
Notes: 1) Don’t miss his Ted Talk: The Journey Through Loss & Grief. 2) Photo: “A Fresh Start” by Mary Jo.
Tag: start
Monday Morning
Today I was a believer. Perfection was very near. I could touch it…
This early day in May was very windy, overcast, clouds bundling their way from window to window in a big troubled hurry, the windows clattering.
Today we begin again.
~ Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day (Published April 17, 2018)
Monday Morning
Another yawned,
another gazed at the window:
…The blaze of promise everywhere.
~ Mark Strand, from “Always; For Charles Simic” in Collected Poems
Photo: Nevermore – by Keith Carter (1948), USA – Source: keithcarterphotographs.com (via Your Eyes Blaze Out). Poem: via 3quarksdaily
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
~ Philip Larkin, from The Trees
Photo: Cendrillon, de Joël Pommerat. (via see more)
Lightly child, lightly.
What is it that I have to tell myself again and again?
That there is always a new beginning, a different end.
I can change the story.
I am the story.
Begin.
~ Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
Notes:
- Quote Source: Who are you really, wanderer?. Photo: pann- with standpauke (via Newthom)
- 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.”