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#88: Apparent ancient wisdom and quiet visuals of peripheral light
“Live your life.”
”Feel your feelings.”
“Be yourself.”
“Walk the walk.”
It seems that the things we ought to do, need to be repeated to us in tidy elementary phrases that even children couldn’t understand (because they are busy living). These expressions are only obvious in that they repeat themselves — reminding you the most basic functions of humanity.
Indulging these incessant reminders and moral emphases, we are a step removed from our truths and tenants of being.Yesterday at the coffee shop, Jac set down a book of teachings (Lao Tzu’s Hua Hu Ching). In unthinking whim, I opened the book to its middle — entry Forty-Five:
I didn’t know what I was gonna write about today. I don’t prefer to throw things together at the last minute, but sometimes that’s the only way it actually works.
I had written a rough draft (of the introduction) about a month ago, with an intent to return to it and flesh it out some more. When I returned to that draft this morning, I was pleased to find how succinctly Tzu’s words completed and summarized my own mental meandering.
Mind you, I found these words just yesterday. Perhaps fate does find a way, if only we allow the ‘river to flow clearly and cleanly through the proper channel’.
In-between moments 📷
I do believe these paint a nice picture of my own ‘integral nature’ — the quiet moments I’m genuinely drawn to. These are, I guess, my ‘pure original insights’.
True miscellanea
These Photos Of America’s Best Diners Are Americana Without The Nostalgia
“Someone once told me that my work is like that of an anthropologist, finding things and symbols that are from that time and comparing them to how they feel today.”
101 Design Rules
“Musings, ramblings, and principles that I’ve shared with my team and randomly on Twitter. Reminding yourself of the principles that ground you is simply a good practice. Here are mine.”
“Our human and earthly limits, properly understood, are not confinements, but rather are inducements to formal elaboration and elegance, to fullness of relationship and meaning.”
WENDELL BERRY, ‘FAUSTIAN ECONOMICS’ (2006)