{First Friday Writings for Randos - A monthly post that features pieces from other writers that touch some facet of the Randonneuring experience, even if that was not the author's intent. It's stuff that's best read out loud - slowly.} This month it's an excerpt from a blogpost titled:
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blinded by walls
by FRANK FORENCICH
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indoor living takes us out of contact with the world that gives us life. We deprive ourselves of ancient, primal experience that literally makes us who we are. Because we live in boxes, we begin to compartmentalize our knowledge and our imagination. That is to say, we even think differently when we’re indoors. Our ideas, creations and solutions become increasingly linear, analytical, abstract, artificial and yes, dangerous. Walls and roofs make us blind to the very qualities that might well keep us whole, sane and healthy.
You can read the rest here: Blinded by walls
You can read the rest here: Blinded by walls
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