"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."
-Virginia Woolf
My 94-year-old grandma can remember every phone number and every address she's ever had. She remembers that it was November the 11th 1940 when there was a snowstorm that kept she and her new hubby snowed-in for four days. She recites lenghty Shakespearean sonnets, remembers the price of a can of tuna during the Depression, and can recall her teachers' names from gradeschool...
Along with addresses and phone numbers, our generation's brains are filled with logins and passwords and pin numbers and social media accounts and blogs and sudoku and calendars and updates... blah blah blah! It's brain clutter... I'd rather remember the date of a beautiful snowstorm or be able to share my favorite poem from memory. I'd like to declutter the digital world in my brain and make some room for vibrant information and vivid memories. Although, I do like blogging and do love the expansive array of interesting subjects to explore online. My curiosity is overflowing and I just need to make space in my head for healing silence and blankness.
.ryn
I want more room for...
...quiet meditating
...listening to birds
...poetry
...art
...music
...nothing
...tea
...God
...stars
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