Vivid Momentary Insights
Thursday, December 16 (2021) 10PM ‘Vivid Momentary Insights’ I didn’t understand Shakespeare until I turned 53. It was like a cloudy sky opened up and shone the light of clarity on my perception—a key unlocking the door of my consciousness. Word appreciation. Understanding my own struggle. Bringing with it reward. An understanding of others. May Sarton (in House By the Sea) speaks of journaling as a means of “trying to sort out and shape experience”, and growing old as “…accepting regression as part of the whole mysterious process. The child in the old person is a precious part of his being able to handle slow imprisonment. As he is able to do less, he enjoys everything in the present, with a childlike enjoyment.” And so as the child inside emerges, she brings clearer vision to a present life once crowded by daily distractions disguised as self-truth. Within it, what’s really going on in and around oneself is finally revealed as if a clouded veil you have lived with...