Waterfalls over dam @ sunrise. 73° F. 5:42 am. July 14, 2024. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
See more pictures from this morning’s walk for Twilight shots and for Sunrise.
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…Successive dawns to re-merge perennially into the light. It basked in a wordless moral plenitude, innocent…
Video taken at Twilight, 5:25 a.m. this morning. 68° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
For more shots from this morning click here: Frank & Egrets and here: Waves and Light Show.
Post inspired by a quote from Rachel Cusk’s new book: “Nature seemed to be in its heyday, seemed to speak of its power of recovery from human violence, its vigil through successive dawns to re-emerge perennially into the light. It basked in a wordless moral plenitude, innocent.” — Rachel Cusk, Parade: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 18, 2024)
Guess.What.Day.It.Is? Spirit Bird Day.
Video of my Spirit Bird, the Cormorant(s) @ 5:32 am. 60° F. June 12 2024. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More shots from this morning’s walk here.
Light Child, Lightly.
The only difference between a lake with waves and a lake without waves is the wind. A lake would be calm except for the wind. We would be calm if not for our thinking. We can tell how much of a turbulent effect the wind has on the lake by the size and strength of the waves. We can tell how much effect our thinking is having on us by the size and strength of our feelings. The wind is invisible. We can only feel the effects of it. Most of the thinking that affects us is also invisible. Our feelings are the only thing that tells us something is amiss.
– Jack Pransky, Somebody Should Have Told Us!: Simple Truths for Living
Notes:
- Video: DK. April 22, 2024 @ 5:30 am at Cove Island Park.
- 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.
- Inspired by: “It is exhausting, dizzying. It is good to feel all sorts of things, even the bad things that scare you, because they, too, push you in the direction of your convictions. — Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 6, 2024)
- Also inspired by: “When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.” —Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove Press in 2012)
Loved it…
I will only remind you of your earlier observations… And what people say is less important than what they cannot.
— C. S. Lewis, in a conversation with Sigmund Freud, in “Freud’s Last Sessions” (2023).
Notes:
- Movie Review in NY Times: ‘Freud’s Last Session’ Review: Film Adaptation and Its Discontents. Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis probably never met. What the stage-based film presupposes is: Maybe they did?
- Movie Review in Variety: ‘Freud’s Last Session’ Review: Anthony Hopkins Slips Easily Into Sigmund’s Skin in Talky Two-Hander