"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Adventures in the Purple Membrane
Sometime in the first part of this year it feels like I crossed over into an alternative - and unexpected - universe. T.R. and I have talked extensively about it and we've come to refer to it as the Purple Membrane. The Purple Membrane appears to be a universe of unexpected change. Unexpected change in my personal life. Unexpected change in my professional life. It is causing me to watch the way things are unfolding more closely, from a slightly different perspective. It is like, as I go through this season of change, I am watching the changes unfolding all around me - equal parts participant and observer. I am learning to simply let things go, to try and accept "what is". That is not an easy thing - but it is an interesting thing. I can feel the turmoil of various emotional states rising up in me, and when I become aware of them, I let them go. Not always completely, not always successfully, but enough that I have moved rather smoothly through the waves of change that seem to be crashing all around me.
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