On Reading – The Used Life
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C. S. Lewis There are few activities I enjoy more than curling up with a good book. I’m always reading somethin…| The Used Life
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C. S. Lewis There are few activities I enjoy more than curling up with a good book. I’m always reading somethin…| The Used Life
just sit for a moment and remember that spring, too, hangs sideways and the moon on a length of threadhow often the evenings are love-strung and cloaked in unspeakable mystery the dipping birds asp…| The Used Life
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. – A. H. Maslow A thought for today: often, when we hope and pray for a change in circumstance…| The Used Life
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anaïs Nin Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside of you …| The Used Life
I published a short post yesterday about the dangers of allowing our tools and technologies to become defense mechanisms. It is my opinion that that’s what happens when we use technology as a subst…| The Used Life
What I am saying is that the danger exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience. Tools and techniques…| The Used Life
Artwork by Elowen Digital One of the first self-fashioning narratives I wrote when I started this project eight years ago was titled, “On Feeling Like a Woman.” I’ve been thinking of revising that …| The Used Life
Ernest Howard Shepard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons when the madness knocks at your door, my child, never forget that your ancestors are butterfliesand the trees are your friends I hate the…| The Used Life
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so muc…| The Used Life
Thrive, paper collage, 2025 A thought that came to mind while I was collaging this morning: if the world’s on fire, let it be. It is rare to feel that everything in our lives is as it should be. Th…| The Used Life
