Today, this:
Posted on | October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
What is it to feel unrealized, other than strangely exquisite? It is the soul’s plea to matter. It is the exhausting submersion of caring for others, sometimes at the expense of our own creative spark. It is age and mortality settling upon us like a kneading cat, prodding us to Hurry up and do something. Make something. Be something.
From the exquisite, talented Kate at Sweet|Salty
It’s this same voice in my head that drives me to do crazy things like declare my NaNoWriMo goal, and to long with my clunky, wanderlust heart to hang glide someday; live somewhere far from here; to keep doing things that terrify me, or are hard, or are brand new. Because if not this, now, then what? Tomorrow might be dust. Tomorrow might anything. But today, this. We hold it in our hands.
And also this: two cups of french press coffee + cream and a new friend = a very good thing.
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I am Christina Rosalie
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October 31st, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
Beautiful, this addendum.
I’d go hang gliding with you.
October 31st, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
Kate rocks. I read this earlier, but must have hurried through the reading, or had a different perspective when I read it. It was much more powerful in the re-reading here. I blame my distraction. Right now one of them is waiting for her hair to be done and is reading this while I write. Duty calls….
November 6th, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
“Because if not this, now, then what? Tomorrow might be dust. Tomorrow might anything.”
i love this.
this will be my mantra today.