Fragile

Hey Apple,

Here with you.

I know you said that taking time off the forum may be helpful. Is there anything else you sense you might be needing today?

You mentioned your music yesterday, how is practice going? @Appleblossom 💛

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🫂@Appleblossom

Hearing you @Appleblossom 💔😔

Take some time out if that's what you need. But please .. Never ever lose that hard won voice of yours.

Take care wise one 🤗

Thank you ladies @AuntGlow @Emelia8 @Dimity

Rehearsal now, Jam on Saturday

Hoping working through things on here will help. I know people dont realise what our sore spots are.

Your support means a Massive amount to me.

Thank you

Ah, that sounds so fun! I have been in rehearsals for a show I am working on and being in that creative, communal space has been so grounding. I am glad you are there. 🥰

Big hugs @Appleblossom 🫶

Was asked to think of someone I admired and to imagine a statue of her, in a place. Simone Weil came to mind, and I imagined her in Creamy white silica, with a flowing long skirt, on the English Downs, gazing at the sky. I was not up to date on my research on her, but she emerged from my addled wits.

https://simone.com.au/simone-weil-philosopher-mystic/

"one of the foremost Western intellectuals of the ideological left who also, ironically, shared Burkean conservative ideas. As an anti-Semitic French Jewish labor activist who battled Spanish dictators and Na zi fascists, she captured unique and profound perspectives in her writings during the most fraught era of the twenty-first century." abstract - https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-030-81037-5_117-2#chapter-info

so many contradictions

but that is how life looks to me

It was in a cabaret workshop yesterday. Others chose Marilyn Monroe and Beyonce. I apologised for not being very sexy, but a friend in the group piped up... she is very intellectually sexy! There was supposed to be an element of with an emphasis on social and political commentary. Oh I felt, so amazed and normalised. Someone else actually had heard of her and appreciated her! I mostly had loved reading about her, first hearing of her through reading German philosophers, but on my own, long after leaving uni. Now, I am reconnecting with this friend and realising we have more in common, than I initially realised.

You @Dimity are still my first good ...'out loud conversation' on theological and philosophical matters. Thinking of you.

@AuntGlow @Taali @Chasingsunsets @Emelia8

Thank you so much for sharing with me here.

I'm so honoured !

@Appleblossom

I can't say that I've read up on her, but the link you posted warrants a closer look.

I need time and space to process it.

"What time and space?"

I hear you say, hmmm I don't know 😕

Taali 💜

Hi @Appleblossom . interesting choice. I'm not well-read and turned to Wikipedia. I'll definitely follow your links, and check my other go-tos the Stanford (online) and Cambridge (hard copy) Encyclopedias of Philosophy. Not much evidence of antisemitism a/c the wiki but certainly complex views on religion... there's a couple of things I'll look out for more on when I follow up. Thanks for thinking of me.

I'm not sure who I'd have thought of, but I've been intrigued by a couple of minor saints lately, again without knowing much about them. Mainly to do with sanctity and service in small things.

I was saddened to learn of the recent death of a nun who'd been a good friend to the family in earlier troubles. It was a pang. I'm blundering through a dark patch which feels as though it's always been there. There's not much kindly light on offer.

Take care. I'm glad you're making new friends and finding your milieu.

Looks like your bulbs are out @Appleblossom . Beautiful ❤️

I have very limited garden. But my pink pigface is out in force at present, which is really pretty. And I have a potted bulb which is also flowering just now. Note my little meerkats in front .. see, hear and speak no evil 🙈 💕. My mum loved meerkats, and I inherited her troup on her passing. 💞

Have a lovely day.