Lindsey, thank you for that Flannery O'Connor quote. Wow. I love that. One of my most inefficient practices is to look for quotes that I've written down. I'll read something, and another quote comes to mind that I know I've written down, so I'll want to read them both and make the connection in real-time. It takes me a while to find the one I go looking for, but once I find it, it's like I've found a treasure all over again. So your post made me go looking through my commonplace books for a quote: "Where can we hear any whispers in the cacophony, behind the drama and trauma and fever dreams of our era? With our phones to our ears, life and our minds frequently feel like casinos now. There is no sun, no pocket of quiet, there don't seem to be exits, and the reception is terrible. Connection to anything real, to the ancient, to the mystical, to the moment, is weak, so there is bound to be existential exhaustion." Long live Anne Lamott. And long live you.
Lindsey, thank you for that Flannery O'Connor quote. Wow. I love that. One of my most inefficient practices is to look for quotes that I've written down. I'll read something, and another quote comes to mind that I know I've written down, so I'll want to read them both and make the connection in real-time. It takes me a while to find the one I go looking for, but once I find it, it's like I've found a treasure all over again. So your post made me go looking through my commonplace books for a quote: "Where can we hear any whispers in the cacophony, behind the drama and trauma and fever dreams of our era? With our phones to our ears, life and our minds frequently feel like casinos now. There is no sun, no pocket of quiet, there don't seem to be exits, and the reception is terrible. Connection to anything real, to the ancient, to the mystical, to the moment, is weak, so there is bound to be existential exhaustion." Long live Anne Lamott. And long live you.
Oh what Lamott book is that from?
It's from Dusk Night Dawn. I'm glad you like it! And no, I haven't read the O'Connor book you mentioned but I'm going to look it up. Thank you!
Fantastic quote!! Copying it down. Have you read Mystery and Manners by O'Connor?