Snippets of Summertime

A Reminder on Perspective

"We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view." 

Mao Tse-Tung 

Sometimes all it takes is an epic river day as a reminder to keep a broader perspective...

"It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all." 

Katherine Min (Secondhand World)

"For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,
on the star tree,
pale with luminous
ocean leaves."
Rolf Jacobsen

Reinforcement

I got this email this morning... and it fit so well following my last post that I had to post it...

It's kind of strange, Jessi, but first you have to know what you want, defined in terms of the end result. And then you have to physically move towards it, without defining the hows. At which point, the thing you want actually starts coming to you, on its own terms, from a direction completely unexpected. Just carry on, Jessi, detached from the details and timing, and perhaps act like you just couldn't care less. Meow. Not unlike a cat,     The Universe