davidtripp posted: " Arriving Before 10 on a Saturday Morning Renew thyself completely each day, do it again, and again, and forever again. Confucius, The Great Learning The morning began dreadfully. Before 7 a.m. I rose from a turbulent sleep, shellacked by a dream"
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Renew thyself completely each day, do it again, and again, and forever again.
Confucius, The Great Learning
The morning began dreadfully. Before 7 a.m. I rose from a turbulent sleep, shellacked by a dream. Not a nightmare, but what I call one of those "loser" dreams, where everything goes wrong, and you cannot get out of the quagmire. You awaken, totally exhausted, languished, and feel that you got no sleep at all.
Reading and journaling seem the only ways I can peel away these damned cobwebs that seem to stick all over my body (you know how it is when you walk through one of those). When packing books for my gallery trip the other day, I fortunately picked up David Brooks, TheSecond Mountain. That man has become a real treasure for me, especially this morning when he successfully pulled me out of that funk.
While reading Brooks, my mind recalled a word from Henry David Thoreau's Walden when he wrote of the dawn as the awakening hour and of our need to renew ourselves daily. He quoted Confucius (which I posted above). Now in response, I arrive at the gallery prior to my usual 10:00 opening time, and I'm ready to resume some art work. I'm anticipating a better day than I felt a couple of hours ago. Thank you, David Brooks. Life is a gift, and we owe it to ourselves to renew daily.
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