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Sunday
Sometimes, taking that first step out of stuck-ness and into movement is the hardest part. So we’re inviting people to take that first step, together.”
Chance Marshall in Londoners Are Walking Their Way to Better Mental Health by MaryLou Costa in Reasons to Be Cheerful, August 15, 2024
Monday
Love is something we have to learn and we can make progress with, and that it’s not just an enthusiasm, it’s a skill. And it requires forbearance, generosity, imagination, and a million things besides. The course of true love is rocky and bumpy at the best of times, and the more generous we can be towards that flawed humanity, the better chance we’ll have of doing the true hard work of love.
Alain de Botton in The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships in On Being, Updated February 2021.
Tuesday
To-do lists on a long yellow legal pad
Blue Windsor knots framed by basic black
Resplendent tables
Great forests of paper plates
Carrying the weight of the world
Saps every ounce of your strength
The Cowboy Junkies, Marathon from the Nomad Series, Volume 2: Demons
Wednesday
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton
Thursday
To be a poet is to place pleasure,
beauty and sensual delights front and
centre, it means having a predilection
for debauchery.
Nicole Brossard
Friday
The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where does wonder begin?
Elizabeth Smart, Necessary secrets : the journals of Elizabeth Smart
this is a book that I would dearly love to own. I adored By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, which is a long gorgeous prose poem.
Saturday
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Pablo Picasso
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