[L, diary, ephēmeris] 1) BLOG
Life As A Work of Art
Luann Udell, another FASO artist recently introduced Nick Wignall in a post, which I followed and now receive a weekly newsletter from his site. Because I have long seen our lives as works of art, this particular passage in today's post resonated by providing a much needed support for my continuing lack of posts:
https://nickwignall.com/joy-of-missing-out/?ck_subscriber_id=540557631
The envisioned follow up to Watching Yeast Bloom has been supplanted by an unexpected opportunity to not only reinstall PILAR's two masts but also to do a major job stripping and painting her bottom...hauling her out of the water, onto the beach. This is strictly a 'do-it-yourself' job and fraught with major anxiety-producing tasks to make it happen. Right now, the typhoon passing makes the success of this week's endeavor iffy. Will post again when there is time to take a breath but Nick Wignall's observations on Svend Brinkmann's book, The Joy of Missing Out, explain where my focus and life art lie at this time. And always.
--Zadie Smith--
ahh...but as Thomas Mann said,
"Speech is civilization itself.
The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact
-- it is silence which isolates.
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