“The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart.” “The state of enchantment is one of certainty,” W.H. Auden wrote in his commonplace book. “When enchanted, we neither believe nor doubt nor deny: we know, even if, as in…
Simpler travel all comes down to dialing down the stress of a trip. Start at the beginning by simplifying your packing. What you pack, and what you don’t pack for a trip can result in simpler travel…. The post 3 Things I Never Pack Anymore for Simpler Travel appeared first on Be More with Less….
This essay is adapted from Traversal. She is looking at the staff lines of a strange symphony in blue, her cautious disbelief punctured by a burst of delirious wonderment. Brushes and tubes of paint are scattered about her — paint she has spent years mixing into the perfect shades of blue to color a world’s…
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” “When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist,” Henry Miller wrote in his stunning letter to Anaïs Nin (February…
“He was Gollum — as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes.” J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) firmly believed that there is no such thing as writing “for children” and that creative fantasy serves to set the ageless human imagination free. Nowhere was Tolkien’s ethos more perfectly enacted than in…
