So many good gems in this one! Baseball, linguistics, and liturgy / rituals are some of my favorites things to read about so this was right up my alley
This poem which I like very much, points with bright light neon arrows to the reality which is so very opposite. The tastes that we acquire as we age seem to me to be for truth and beauty. Sampling what is really good even if it's just the appetizers. Savoring little bits of being loved that are sometimes hard to swallow. Accepting care in drops from a little dark blue vial without swatting it away. Taking little tastes of what we may have spent a lifetime refusing with a wave of that dismissive hand. The poet is right. Acquiring tastes is a testing business.
There is an interesting article in the Times today about the possibility of allowing and encouraging joy and grief to coexist, to experience joy and grief together.
"Light on Darkness". Sounds like a good one. Ordering now! Thanks, Micah!
So many good gems in this one! Baseball, linguistics, and liturgy / rituals are some of my favorites things to read about so this was right up my alley
This poem which I like very much, points with bright light neon arrows to the reality which is so very opposite. The tastes that we acquire as we age seem to me to be for truth and beauty. Sampling what is really good even if it's just the appetizers. Savoring little bits of being loved that are sometimes hard to swallow. Accepting care in drops from a little dark blue vial without swatting it away. Taking little tastes of what we may have spent a lifetime refusing with a wave of that dismissive hand. The poet is right. Acquiring tastes is a testing business.
How to find joy in grief...
There is an interesting article in the Times today about the possibility of allowing and encouraging joy and grief to coexist, to experience joy and grief together.