Love all of this and the paper! Love her articulation of the theory mansplaining what it already assumes. Such a silly circular loop. We are adaptive beings on evolutionary paths. Your evolutionary path, my dearest, is gorgeous.
I haven't been to Costa Rica, but while reading this post, I noticed myself becoming relaxed, as if I were there, and doing nothing but being in that moment. Evocative and calming. I recently re-read the Bhagavat Gita, and I know I will again. I look to these ancient texts to get through this hanging existential dread. Getting closer to yourself, Pema says. I'm 73, and I know it's cumulative, an everyday pursuit, and it doesn't end. Heart emoji goes here if I could find it.
Thanks, Mark. I thought often of your and Kirie's summer tent sleeping practice while working on this post. I highly recommend Ravi Ravindra's translation of the Bhagavad Gita, as he has lived in Canada for decades, but was raised learning Sansrkit in India. His perspectives are the most accessible to me of all the translations I've read. Indeed, I've taken to reading spiritual books at bedtime to let the good stuff wash over me in my sleep. It really helps. Glad you're finding a way through.
Love all of this and the paper! Love her articulation of the theory mansplaining what it already assumes. Such a silly circular loop. We are adaptive beings on evolutionary paths. Your evolutionary path, my dearest, is gorgeous.
Thanks, friend. Our intellectual coevolution is a joy.
I haven't been to Costa Rica, but while reading this post, I noticed myself becoming relaxed, as if I were there, and doing nothing but being in that moment. Evocative and calming. I recently re-read the Bhagavat Gita, and I know I will again. I look to these ancient texts to get through this hanging existential dread. Getting closer to yourself, Pema says. I'm 73, and I know it's cumulative, an everyday pursuit, and it doesn't end. Heart emoji goes here if I could find it.
Thanks, Mark. I thought often of your and Kirie's summer tent sleeping practice while working on this post. I highly recommend Ravi Ravindra's translation of the Bhagavad Gita, as he has lived in Canada for decades, but was raised learning Sansrkit in India. His perspectives are the most accessible to me of all the translations I've read. Indeed, I've taken to reading spiritual books at bedtime to let the good stuff wash over me in my sleep. It really helps. Glad you're finding a way through.
To trust/hope enough,
like Howler Monkeys hang, drop.
To in hammock plop!
Indeed, Marisol! Thanks for this.