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Good morning!
I scribbled these words in my commonplace a few years ago. They're from Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" (one of my favorite novels). Woolf is speaking of the young artist, Lily Briscoe:
"For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of. … "
I know how Lily felt.
Let's all have the best possible day today!
Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)
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@ray666 ~ Oh, yes!!! I get that, as well. I'm an "only child" ~ are you, also, by any chance? So being by myself is not typically problematic. The situation I was reacting to was having declined an invitation to join a staff dinner. I knew I couldn't handle 19 of us together at a very popular Mexican restaurant. (I'm retired.) We're a talkative bunch! And there's no private room so add the noise from all those around us - 🤯! Anyway, I felt badly about having to choose sanity over a fun evening.
Love the excerpt from the book you cited. I'll share the final stanza from the piece named "Lament Upon the Finishing of a Beloved Book":
"May I return now
from the world of this book
to the daily details of my own life
with truer vision and fiercer hope,
trailing with me
remnants of that coming glory
I have glimpsed again
in story."
~~ from "Every Moment Holy" by Douglas McKelvey
Yes! to having the best possible day today!
Barb (@bjk3)