#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

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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

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

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