Thursday, May 25, 2017 Service
"We can live any way we want. The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse. "
— Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels

Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels
Annie Dillard tells us we could learn from weasels "something of the purity of living in the physical sense and the dignity of living without bias or motive...open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will...yielding, not fighting. A weasel doesn't "attack" anything; a weasel lives as he's meant to, yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity."

Be the Change

Think about what's really important to you, then take a moment to do as Annie suggests, to "grasp your one necessity and not let it go."

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