I did not wake in a good brainstate today.
Sometimes the range of terrible things humans do to one another just knocks the whole narrative of life's charms away.
Everything can feel so flat & hopeless, & one can boggle at the idea that they ever thought otherwise, ever tried to build something more.
The brainstate will tell you it's being rational. Responding logically to new intel.
But the brainstate is a form of grieving.
Go gentle into your days, lovely ones, if you're in grief as well.
@MLClark When I'm blue, I find refuge in Carl Sagan and "Cosmos." It's like singing science. "Cosmos" is a reminder that humanity can be better than it seems.
@MLClark I have come over the years to distrust brainstates that tell me they're being rational. Not all of them, but many, especially the sadder ones.
I am about to go out and have lunch with an old friend. We may discuss grief, we may not, but I expect it will help my state of brain.
I hope your day sees an improvement in your state of brain as well.
I'm really glad to hear you're taking care of yourself, Stephen.
I hope you have a good lunch with that old friend.
Thank you.
@MLClark hugs. Yeah, I've been in a similar state as well.
@MLClark
for everything there is a season. Richard Rohr encourages us to grieve the losses we all feel these days, for the earth, for our species decline into madness, for whatever collective or individual tragedy we face.
let grief be, so renewal can too.🙏🏻
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