"We are all survivors." What a wonderful truth to encounter in all its meaning. What an uplifting swaddle, a stork's ride into the clouds, that statement brings. All my years of frustration, loss, disappointment, poor-me-isms, the whole bubble gum machine of angst and pathos and longing and regret...it all falls away when I take in your take on life. We are all survivors. There's glory in that. A thrust-out, "not me, not today, not this way" chin against calamity that can remind us of all we went through, all we endured, all we healed from. All we learned from. Mostly, that. Why we came here. Why we'll leave here broader, deeper, able to love more, forgive more. Cobble stones along the infinite path we all tread.
Thank you so much. Your Red Bull for the Soul has given me wings.
Crazy about the "bubble gum machine." It's wonderful to read responses that are themselves works of art. And you are right.....it's about..."all we endured, all we healed from. All we learned from. Mostly that." Sometimes I wonder how people who live outside the learning paradigm can stand it. Life, that is.
Einstein is a great teacher of mysticism, don't you think? I take comfort in knowing that great minds have independently arrived at the same outside-the-box reading of reality.
Ah Susie. You've done it again.
"We are all survivors." What a wonderful truth to encounter in all its meaning. What an uplifting swaddle, a stork's ride into the clouds, that statement brings. All my years of frustration, loss, disappointment, poor-me-isms, the whole bubble gum machine of angst and pathos and longing and regret...it all falls away when I take in your take on life. We are all survivors. There's glory in that. A thrust-out, "not me, not today, not this way" chin against calamity that can remind us of all we went through, all we endured, all we healed from. All we learned from. Mostly, that. Why we came here. Why we'll leave here broader, deeper, able to love more, forgive more. Cobble stones along the infinite path we all tread.
Thank you so much. Your Red Bull for the Soul has given me wings.
Crazy about the "bubble gum machine." It's wonderful to read responses that are themselves works of art. And you are right.....it's about..."all we endured, all we healed from. All we learned from. Mostly that." Sometimes I wonder how people who live outside the learning paradigm can stand it. Life, that is.
An awesome post, both philosophical and absolutely grounded...kind of like living in the past, present, and future all at the same time...
You've identified my path through the forest of language. As above, so below, the Jewish mystics say.
Wonderful comment. I have no words to say it better. Thank you, B L and of course to you, Susie.
Your here and now spin on Jewish mysticism has the perfect ending of wildly beautiful flowers blazing fiercely, surviving the elements.
Einstein is a great teacher of mysticism, don't you think? I take comfort in knowing that great minds have independently arrived at the same outside-the-box reading of reality.
Wow. Beautiful and breathtaking. Thank you Susie.
Wonderful to be connected to such a deep reader.