Beautiful post. I’m in a reading season right now after several months of no reading. Reading is one of the most rejuvenating activities for me, so I feel guilty sometimes when I’m not, like I’m not exercising or eating healthy. But I’ve been around this block enough times to know that this season will be swallowed up by a busy season at some point and then will eventually come round again. One of the benefits of getting older, I suppose.
By the way, you should share what you’re reading. I’d be curious to know.
Not reading does feel a bit like skipping out on your vegetables to me, too! Especially because if I have any talent for thinking, organizing thoughts, and writing, it has to have come from reading because I haven't cultivated those aptitudes intentionally... perhaps I should...!
RE: getting older, it's been so wonderful to have had enough breadth of experience that you start seeing larger cycles. As a child, hours and days were the fundamental units of time, crawling by and sometimes standing still. Now I'm much more attuned to the rhythm of a week and a season and my own rhythms; days flash by like minutes.
On the topic of those larger temporal scales and cycles, right now I'm working my way through John McPhee's Annals of the Former World in which he works HIS way across the country east to west, elucidating the 3 billion year geologic history of the US by tagging along with a few preeminent geologists, tying personal, societal, cultural, and ecological history all together in a way that seems pretty distinct to his journalistic writing.
Have you read anything recently that's either moved you deeply or been a frivolous (in the most positive sense of the word) escape from daily life?
Shane, I so appreciate this post from you. The idea of ebbs and flows of practices and activities resonates deeply with me. I’m in a ‘vacation’ period with very little playing of my horns, for instance, and an active period of idling/daydreaming/resting. So good for the soul and body to contract/expand, or breathe in/breathe out. 💜💃🏻🥰🎵🪄🕉️🤗
Mary Ellen, it's so good to hear from you! I'm glad you're in rest mode and that your resting sounds relatively frictionless with respect to what I often experience...! What do you get up to during your active resting?
Beautiful post. I’m in a reading season right now after several months of no reading. Reading is one of the most rejuvenating activities for me, so I feel guilty sometimes when I’m not, like I’m not exercising or eating healthy. But I’ve been around this block enough times to know that this season will be swallowed up by a busy season at some point and then will eventually come round again. One of the benefits of getting older, I suppose.
By the way, you should share what you’re reading. I’d be curious to know.
Thank you, Zach!
Not reading does feel a bit like skipping out on your vegetables to me, too! Especially because if I have any talent for thinking, organizing thoughts, and writing, it has to have come from reading because I haven't cultivated those aptitudes intentionally... perhaps I should...!
RE: getting older, it's been so wonderful to have had enough breadth of experience that you start seeing larger cycles. As a child, hours and days were the fundamental units of time, crawling by and sometimes standing still. Now I'm much more attuned to the rhythm of a week and a season and my own rhythms; days flash by like minutes.
On the topic of those larger temporal scales and cycles, right now I'm working my way through John McPhee's Annals of the Former World in which he works HIS way across the country east to west, elucidating the 3 billion year geologic history of the US by tagging along with a few preeminent geologists, tying personal, societal, cultural, and ecological history all together in a way that seems pretty distinct to his journalistic writing.
Have you read anything recently that's either moved you deeply or been a frivolous (in the most positive sense of the word) escape from daily life?
Shane, I so appreciate this post from you. The idea of ebbs and flows of practices and activities resonates deeply with me. I’m in a ‘vacation’ period with very little playing of my horns, for instance, and an active period of idling/daydreaming/resting. So good for the soul and body to contract/expand, or breathe in/breathe out. 💜💃🏻🥰🎵🪄🕉️🤗
Mary Ellen, it's so good to hear from you! I'm glad you're in rest mode and that your resting sounds relatively frictionless with respect to what I often experience...! What do you get up to during your active resting?