Instructions

Remember your name...

Trust deams.

Trust your heart and trust your story...

Do not forget your manners.
Do not look back...

~ Neil Gaimen, Instructions (2000)

A poem stuffed with more references than I can identify from my remembered fairy tale trove of olde. Skimmed from long summers of reading on a blanket in the back yard, and dour winters in which I was sausage rolled in my doona. This poem was like flicking through a photo-album from my real childhood. The one where I was too busy reading to find time to smile for the camera.

Will Explains Authenticity

In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote -

This above all: to thine own self be true
And it doth follow, as night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

[via The Authenticity Hoax - How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves (2010)  via Sincerity and Authenticity (1972)  by Lionel Trilling]

Bare vs Bear;
Verbs on a seesaw.

Project: Earth Hour

A Quiet Step

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

~ Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver

A lush read for July. An invitation to sidestep the cold and your ego; an insistence that nature needs to be allowed to be.