Thanks for sharing so authentically, Len. I admire your ability to do so. Your quest reminds me of this from Rainer Maria Rilke: "I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now." The answer will come.
Beautiful. And it reminded me of our poetry workshops, and the importance of negative capability--that ending that isn't wrapped up tight in a bow, that leaves everyone wanting, wondering. Hard to sit in that space, but I bet swimming in the big, wild ocean might bring you some clarity.
Thanks for sharing so authentically, Len. I admire your ability to do so. Your quest reminds me of this from Rainer Maria Rilke: "I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now." The answer will come.
Beautiful words. Thanks, Gary. I love how we inspired each other to return to our Substack newsletters!
Beautiful. And it reminded me of our poetry workshops, and the importance of negative capability--that ending that isn't wrapped up tight in a bow, that leaves everyone wanting, wondering. Hard to sit in that space, but I bet swimming in the big, wild ocean might bring you some clarity.
Thanks, Betsy. Nice connection with the Keats insight. And yes, the swimming was nearly perfect this morning--calm sea, no seaweed, water temp 67.