My dear soul-mate,
November 3, 2024, Sunday . Technically it’s Bunka No Hi. Culture Day in Japan. Tomorrow, November 4 is set as a national holiday because some national holidays are worth a day of holiday. November 23 is a Saturday.
OK, Vandy (that’s me), Let me “Ground Center and Shield.”
Reality bends. Inner work. I have to find my copy of Eliot’s Four Quartets! These bits are from BURNT NORTON:
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; And do not call it fixity, …
The inner freedom from the practical desire. The release from action and suffering, release from the inner and the outer compulsion, yet surrounded by a grace of sense.
I just wanted to get this down in the few minutes I could grab. I came back and cut everything that didn’t look like an elephant. It’s called Centering in the present: My pledge to myself to come back to read and post this today.
From Vandy