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Eccentric, Being Your Own Unique Person

4/18/2013

 
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As I am now 66, these words of Gary Snyder are comforting and challenge me to reach inside and take hold of the courage within, to be the person am born to be. What do you think?


 
he human community,  when healthy,  is like an ancient forest.   The little ones are in  the shade and shelter of  the big ones,  even rooted in their lost old bodies. All ages and all together  growing and dying…But let there be really old trees who can give up all sense of propriety and begin
 throwing their limbs out in extravagant gestures,
 dance like poses…. holding themselves available to whatever the world
and the weather might propose…They are like the Chinese Immortals,
to have lived that long  is to have permission  to be eccentric…To be the poets and painters among trees, laughing, ragged, and fearless.They make me almost  look forward to old age.
                  Gary Snyder




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11/29/2020 11:04:51 pm

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