One of the sweetest kudos I've received. Thanks Troy. And, oh, yes, there are a lot of femmes and divas out and coming out.
p.s. Life's too short not to read more Emerson. Think we are idling time reading Emerson, Rilke, Dickenson, Blake, Oliver? I say we change the whole universe by perceiving it truly: "How much virtue there is in simply seeing!" said his closest buddy, Thoreau.
People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them... The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not where he is going." - from Circles, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speaking of gifts (...from my last post):
He is a good man who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming. Some violence, I think, is done, some degradation borne, when I rejoice or grieve at a gift. I am sorry when my independence is invaded, or when a gift comes from such as do not know my spirit, and so the act is not supported; and if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters. are at level, then my goods pass to him, and his to me. All his are mine, all mine his. I say to him, How can you give me this pot of oil, or this flagon of wine, when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things for gifts. - from Gifts, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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