Reading. Brainpickings.com Maria Popova. you can google it. Already she has moved on, but if you type Leisure in the search box you will come to her last post about Josef Pieper's writings on
Leisure
Leisure. a condition of the soul.
"leisure as a 'non activity'...an inner absence of preoccupation, a calm, an ability to let things go, to be quiet.
In leisure, there is....something of the serenity of "not-being-able-to-grasp", of the recognition of the mysterious character of the world, and the confidence of blind faith, which can let things go as they will"
What if?
Last Wednesday, when there was a day of not needing to go anywhere, a day of just Open ness, and that morning, i was Out, scrubbing the bucks' water tubs, there was an inkling of this. Of leisure. It was so elegant and soft and elegant. Moments of it. Elegant and Soft.
i am looking. Trying to understand.
Walnuts on the stove, steeping. stewing.
can't get the pic right, but there is a saddening of the original Bright
and on the right, even a little more, just subtle changes
