Something familiar holds your attention for longer than usual but not because it changed. Your way of seeing has shifted, allowing more detail, more presence to register. It's been there, waiting without urgency, whether or not it was seen.

This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-bottleneck

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Happy Yeats Yeets Crowley Day!

On 4/19/1900, William Butler Yeats & another member barred Aleister Crowley from entering the Blythe Road (London) temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, kicking Crowley down the stairs when he persisted (according to Richard Ellman).

https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/aleister-crowley-william-butler-yeats-get-into-an-occult-battle.html

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W. B. Yeats said one big source of leprechaun wealth is that they are paid by fairies to repair their shoes, and the fairies constantly wear out their shoes with dancing. Furthermore, leprechauns have dug up numerous pots of gold buried by humans long ago during times of war.
🎨 Jean-Baptiste Monge

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"The woods of Arcady are dead,
And over is their antique joy.
Of old the world on dreaming fed;
Grey Truth is now her painted toy.

But O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past us whirled,
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings...."

- W. B. Yeats, "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"
🎨 Giovanni Francesco Barbieri

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