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The Bittersweet Goodbye
In the Netflix documentary “The Center Will Not Hold” about the wonderful writer Joan Didion, she is quoted as saying: “I went to San Francisco because I had not been able to work in some months. I had been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act. That the world, as I had understood it, no longer existed. It was the first time I had dealt directly and flatly with the evidence of atomization. The proof that things fall apart. If I was to work again at all it would be necessary for me to come to terms with disorder.” For many reasons, this really resonated with me/my life now.
I took a walk yesterday and my heart was gladdened to see this beautiful view of “frozen waterfalls” and I thought “How apt, something so lovely and still life.” For now, anyway. It was humbling to see nature in this amazing way.
I was very disheartened to see that a favorite thrift store of mine, one that I had often frequented in the past, had been completely gutted — as if a bulldozer had just flattened it. This lovely little now former shop was…
