From Gregory Orr's "Selected Books of the Beloved," Copper Canyon Press (2022).
Marshall Sahlins below on scarcity as operating principle: How can scarcity be eliminated in an economic model built upon it to function? To feel sufficiency and satiety deeply becomes the subversive act—*enough* as the most beautiful word.
From James Hollis, Jungian author, in "Hauntings" (2013): "Whenever...fixities are shaken...there is a high degree of cultural anxiety which takes the form of hysteria, shabby reasoning, and regressive, even violent affect, which seeks to repress such anxiety by oppressing others."
Christine McVie said "Songbird" came to her on a sleepless night. David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" landed while he was on a bus. Now it is scarce to experience space uninterrupted by a phone. Yet distraction is soul neglect; great loneliness arises from disinterest in our own inner life. #creativity
Gorgeous. Thank you, Gary.
This beautiful poetry collection and an unexpected reunion with Carol Moldaw over breakfast in Venice, CA. The task: to stitch ourselves together in alert, tender conversations—the antidote to the great breaking of this time.
