#the world

A helpful card to see on a busy day. The World asks: what would make you feel whole? And the answer, for me, today, was "not feeling like my entire life is work". I had my weekly therapy session first thing this morning, which is great for getting me out of the house and starting the day with a thing that is only for myself. It does make the work day feel a bit longer since I then don't take a lunch break, but I purposefully alleviated that by putting an online auction on in the background while I worked - antiques are my current special interest and I'm seriously toying with the idea of attempting to collect and sell antique brooches. On a similar theme, I made a point of stopping work on time - no late hours for me - and spent the evening reading a Judith Miller book I got from the library. It's fun to have something I can jump so wholeheartedly into, to be able to feel I'm nourishing an out-of-work interest - a bulwark against the creeping of my work into my life.

By Tau, by the cosmic seal, by the mystery fulfilled yet never ended— may I receive the blessing of completion, the wisdom of incarnation, and the sacred freedom to cross the last gate and discover it was the first.

morning in the park :)

best reread adquisitions

I don't want to say it's a fascist tactic without having researched and found sources to back that up, but unfortunately I got so angry while trying to read about current techno-fascist tactics and being blocked by paywalls at multiple turns that I had to make this post.

Mar Joseph Srampickal, Eparch of the Syro-Malabar Church in Great Britain (interview with The Pillar)