Quick #Tarot card pull for the feed, and to anyone who needed this today:
As much as you have to offer your care and effort to others, you risk burnout by not giving yourself the care you need as well. What can you offer yourself today?
"Alex is eight, and already he has shut away the wildness of the world. I lost it top, in early childhood. But memories would come on wings of light—a shining bird, high pines and sin, the fire in a floating leaf, the autumn heat in weathered wood, wood smell, a child soft lichen on a stone—a light filled immanence, shimmering and breathing, and yet so fleeting that it left me breathless and in pain."
-- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
I’m finishing up a short story, which triggered a memory of reading about the Giant’s Causeway as a child. I was impressed enough to remember how they look like, even until now, but I can’t remember the legends around these steps. Damn. Here be a photo. 😂
#Folklore, #Stories and #Legends folks, any interesting lore or legends around the Giant’s Causeway?
'There are things that matter more than words,' she said. Then paused. Her comment had however struck Bojan. He became almost garrulous, though not angry in his refutation of it.
-- Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping