Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood. — Benjamin Franklin I don’t know about you, but I found that yesterday’s exercise was tremendously, actually ridiculously, helpful! In my head, all my fantasies have remained fantasies. They switch from obvious and easy to arrogant and impossible, because my belief has depended on my … Read more
Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. — Annie Dillard Have you noticed a continuing thread that runs through all of the exercises I’ve been suggesting since we got back from our reading deprivation week? Yes, they are sensory timeouts, … Read more
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,Float in the garden when no wind blows,Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows; So the old tunes float in my mind,And go from me leaving no trace behind,Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.— Sara Teasdale, Old Tunes As we gently (I hope … Read more