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Why ‘The Lovely & Absurd’?
I find a lot of things about being alive quite strange, often laughable, and yet somehow exquisitely touching.
Isn't that absurd?
Meanwhile, I'm increasingly less certain about certainty, and slowly relinquishing the idea of discovering fixed answers to just about any question on being human.
“...we live in an age that has a cult of expertise. I don’t subscribe to that. ...we’re really called to compare notes at being alive. ...no one can tell anybody how to live. And this is why at this point in my life, I really have no interest in debate or argument or persuasion. I feel like we need everybody’s view to touch on the whole and the oneness and the wonder and the usefulness of all the resources that are in the mystery."
~ Mark Nepo, Poet & Author
So, let's compare notes at being alive.
I've been comforted and encouraged by writers, particularly women, who offered up notes from their everyday experience—bare, honest and beautiful. And so I hope, in some small way, to do the same.
My current view is:
The best we can do is to make our own way
with all our human imperfections and inconsistencies
fumbling for understanding while also allowing the mystery
—of this immense, roaring pulse of aliveness we feel within and all around.
And to do all this with as much courage, kindness and imagination as we can muster.
