ONE OF OUR FAMOUS LUNCHES. IZ LOVED BRINGING HOME GOOD QUALITY TAKE AWAYS. THE LAST FEW YEARS WE WENT TO NORTH BEACH STORE AND OFTEN BROUGHT IT BACK TO THE RALEIGH COTTAGE.
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Keeping Quiet: Sylvia Boorstein Reads Pablo Neruda’s Beautiful Ode to Silence | Brain Pickings
THIS is what I am pleased about. That I have not treated this as a “journey” or a “passage” or any other throwaway cliche. I have simply sat within it. And I still do.
Keeping Quiet: Sylvia Boorstein Reads Pablo Neruda’s Beautiful Ode to Silence
by Maria Popova
An lyrical reminder to break the momentum of busyness that fuels “the sadness of never understanding ourselves.”
“Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet…” So begins Wendell Berry’s “How to Be a Poet,” tucked into which is tremendous sagacity on how to be a good human being. “The impulse to create begins… in a tunnel of silence,” wrote Adrienne Rich in her tremendous lecture on art and freedom. “Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”
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The SilverBird Part 2 