The Sadness of Impermanence

Time comes in waves here, a sickness, one day after the other rolling on; I move up, it’s called awake, then down into the uneasy nights but never forward. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-28802615-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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Beach House Master of None

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Step one. Suppose you clear away all the happinesses that you distrust? Step two. Clear away all the unhappinesses that you have come to trust. Get rid of them too, don’t count on your miseries or your titillations. What will be left behind? Perhaps, after you’ve cleaned all that out, you might find in the back of your cupboard something like the theme of the Goldberg Variations. A deeply trustable happiness. A tender, discombobulating — but not discombobulated! — smile with just enough sadness and loss in it to be believable, to be endurable.

Jeremy Denk's beautiful meditation on ”the mishmash of reverence and irreverence” in Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Lest we forget, happiness is a learned capacity. 

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This is me What did it feel like to be this way

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Henry Miller

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Brian Andreas - Favorite Places

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Rita Lino

From Trying to Make Myself a Work of Art

2012

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Life imprisonment is the most horrible of punishments because it preserves existence in its pure facticity but forbids it all legitimation. A freedom can not will itself without willing itself as an indefinite movement.

The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone De Beauvoir

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Michael George Haddad

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Wise kitten

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I read A Year of Magical Thinking

and it was magical

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It would be very nice for nervous types like me if things were black-and-white, and you could tell where one thing ended and the next thing began, but as Einstein taught us, everything in the future and the past is right here now. There’s always something ending and something beginning. Yet in the very center is the truth of your spiritual identity: is you.

Anne Lamott