We have to make our peace with our life throughout our life. Making our peace with having to constantly be making our peace is, itself, an important piece of our being able to make our peace as necessary without warning all the way from start to finish. It is upheaval and disruption on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea constantly, and we have to develop the art of keeping our sea legs under us all the way.
Being able to observe what’s what and to articulate the impact of our life upon our life is instrumental in meeting the day as the day needs to be met. If we don’t have someone to talk to, we have to write it out for ourselves, as I am doing here. Articulation is crucial to realization which is essential to adjustment and accommodation, which is the ongoing and unending work of keeping ourselves in accord with our life. Which is the work of being alive. No?
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