Invidious

We are not here to anesthetize ourselves from the experience of life.

If you are anxious, if you are scared, you are not defective.
You are paying attention. You are noticing.

Grief and suffering saturate our world. You don’t have to look far to find them.

To feel anxious, nervous, afraid—to have a confusing mix of elation and soul-deep sorrow after reading about wild horses being restored to their native range…

And then, to fold yourself into a ball of grief after learning that two little best friends, just eight and nine years old, were swept away in a flood, their raucous giggles never to resound again—

That doesn’t make you broken. It makes you human.

And we could say that if you are not anxious, at least on some level, perhaps you are not paying attention.

That you are distracted and disconnected, your senses numbed and dulled by capitalist overconsumption and a life made too comfortable, buffered from the raw impermanence of nature...

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