The glory of a beautiful Spring day would not exist if not for all the bleak, grey winter ones that preceded it.
Investigate, question, examine, interrogate anything for long enough and sooner or later it disappears.
We educate and pass on our values to our children not by lecturing but by example, how we live, how we behave day in, day out.
A civil and humane society is held together and sustained less by its laws than by the everyday acts of kindness, compassion, generosity and care that individuals bestow upon each other in ordinary day to day life.
“The journey into the self, into the nameless and the formless, is first and last an act of abandonment.”
A still, cool and unnervingly quiet day out there…
Off to see Mother Vera later at the Borderlines Film Festival later. Can’t wait!
So, not altogether unpredictably I ended taking an unscheduled ice bath by falling into the brook! Although I won’t over dramatise, I’ll call it what it is – wild paddling.
Coffee first and then I have to chop/ prune/ wrestle a fallen tree out of the brook. Typically I have no waterproof footwear so it looks like I’ll have to go in barefoot 🥶🤦♂️!
Huh. Never heard of Próspera before until I read this. When hell looks like a Caribbean holiday.
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
— Carl Jung
