Daily Digest

People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

— Lemony Snicket

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.

— Hermann Hesse

My life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Life

What will it be like, truly, to live in the mountains or forest one day?

I dearly wish to embark on this adventure with my whole heart.

A game of nothing

How do you play a game of nothing?

Today I played a game of something.

I woke up, got dressed, had my breakfast.

I did my work, had lunch, met people.

I had dinner, showered, back to work.

How do you play a game of nothing?

See, that baby, she plays a game of nothing.

She squiggles and kicks,

and looks out at the world,

expecting nothing,

wanting nothing,

licking everything.


Sometimes, my love knows how

to play this game of nothing.

But you have to know

what the game is, else

you cannot tolerate him,

you cannot love him.

But when you do know

what nothing and its game is

then he is very wise,

and you want to be like him,

thinking, walking, moving,

floating in a big calm cloud,

having every nothing,

not needing anything,

breathing everything,

at a game of nothing.