It's truly difficult to remain balanced in this frantic life of constant noise and the continuous propaganda of confusing narratives we are bombarded with daily. Gone are the days of reading a well-written book in some quiet garden nook, or kneading a lump of dough and feeling its elastic softness between your fingers. Searching for ancient arrowheads along a creek bed while your dogs race happily ahead, noses to the ground sniffing out the elusive otter family that has taken up residence in the crevices along the deep pools carved out by last fall's flooding. Young and old alike
are now so completely caught up in the latest technological devices, staring down into our "smart orbs" and scrolling endlessly, we have become distracted and disconnected from the real world around us. We should know what is going on around us and in the world. Be aware of the atrocities and lies being told to us, and call out the injustices we are observing as well as speaking truth to power. But we must also find times of quiet introspection and times of living in the moment; otherwise, in all the distraction, we will succumb to the propaganda of fear, discontentment, and frustration that our overlords desire for us to further their tyranny over us.
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land;
there is no other life, or the like of this. I wish to live as ever if to derive my satisfactions and
inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly
perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of
no heaven but that which lies about me." Henry David Thoreau
It's truly difficult to remain balanced in this frantic life of constant noise and the continuous propaganda of confusing narratives we are bombarded with daily. Gone are the days of reading a well-written book in some quiet garden nook, or kneading a lump of dough and feeling its elastic softness between your fingers. Searching for ancient arrowheads along a creek bed while your dogs race happily ahead, noses to the ground sniffing out the elusive otter family that has taken up residence in the crevices along the deep pools carved out by last fall's flooding. Young and old alike
are now so completely caught up in the latest technological devices, staring down into our "smart orbs" and scrolling endlessly, we have become distracted and disconnected from the real world around us. We should know what is going on around us and in the world. Be aware of the atrocities and lies being told to us, and call out the injustices we are observing as well as speaking truth to power. But we must also find times of quiet introspection and times of living in the moment; otherwise, in all the distraction, we will succumb to the propaganda of fear, discontentment, and frustration that our overlords desire for us to further their tyranny over us.
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land;
there is no other life, or the like of this. I wish to live as ever if to derive my satisfactions and
inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly
perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of
no heaven but that which lies about me." Henry David Thoreau
👏👏 Beautiful!