Today's newsletter offers three anecdotes to contextualize an important reminder:
Sometimes the world just won't give us nice, neat, coherent stories.
Never has before!
So when despairing at the haphazard state of the news, maybe consider these three tales: of messy beginnings (mitochondria!), middles (mince pie mythology!), and endings (Patron Saint outcomes!).
We have so little control over the "story" as a whole.
Maybe there's a strength in embracing that, though.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/on-mitochondria-mince-pies-and-patron
yes, we are the collators, the editors, the authors, in fact, of our lived experience.
although circumstances surrounding us provide endless possibilities for despair,
we can choose to concentrate on what has been called The Good, for want of a term for which there is none.
even in the midst of horror, people have found ways to embrace and carry it forward.
lotus from mud is possible, always. not easy always.
concentration and insight in balance. following guides, reliable.
@MLClark
"there is no moment when ‘contact’ does not occur.
At least one of the six senses (and in this model the mind is treated as a sense), if not all of them, is in contact with its cognitive object at any given moment.
Hence each moment constitutes and is constituted by intentionalities inhabiting one or several of the sensory domains.
Put another way, experience is always in and of the sensorium.
existential-phenomenologists claim man is never other than being-in-the-world."
