#immediacy — Public Fediverse posts

Having recently read it aloud at a charity event, I have finally just published to my website my 2012 essay "Lie to Me", written at the time for my friend Juli, inviting honesty, which it suggests is more about trust, immediacy and fearlessness than it is about truth. I figured somehow that Valentine's week was a good time to get it out into the world.

There is an accompanying audio reading by me. It is about 5 minutes long.

https://nhplace.com/kent/Writing/Lie-To-Me.html

#Valentine #Valentines #ValentinesDay #honesty #truth #lies #lying #trust #immediacy #honesty #essay #writing #WritingCommunity #poem #FreeVerse

Having recently read it aloud at a charity event, I have finally just published to my website my 2012 essay "Lie to Me", written at the time for my friend Juli, inviting honesty, which it suggests is more about trust, immediacy and fearlessness than it is about truth. I figured somehow that Valentine's week was a good time to get it out into the world.

There is an accompanying audio reading by me. It is about 5 minutes long.

https://nhplace.com/kent/Writing/Lie-To-Me.html

#Valentine #Valentines #ValentinesDay #honesty #truth #lies #lying #trust #immediacy #honesty #essay #writing #WritingCommunity #poem #FreeVerse

Forgetting was my only option

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9qZOuE-VoY

What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.

T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton

Quick now, here, now, always—
Ridiculous the waste sad time
Stretching before and after.

T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton

#BurntNorton #eliot #forgetting #immediacy

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Our minds are better employed in bearing the misfortunes that do befall us than in foreseeing those that may.
 
[Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu’à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶174 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #concern #facereality #focus #future #meme #misfortune #possibility #present #problemsolving #problems #reality #speculation #troubles #worry #immediacy

When I visited the massive ancient Angel Oak tree on John's Island, SC I was all in - the smell of it, spongey ground from the roots and earth underfoot, dipping swooping branches, strong rough bark, and scads of people who wanted me to figure out their greasy phone and take their picture then got ragey hostile when I said "No thanks, I'm just here to dig on the tree" wander on "Hey lady take my picture" sigh #Immediacy #JustSayNo

"Inspiration is perishable — act on it immediately." — Naval Ravikant — — — #NavalRavikant #quote #quotes #inspiration #action #immediate #immediacy #enthusiasm #fervor #urgent #spontaneous