Nature claiming spaces!
There was this excerpt that I wanted to refer to, but I have been unable to find it again. Perhaps, it was what I found pieces of, which my mind imagined stitched into one. Anyway, this one is for Decembers. Honestly, I have been afraid of Decembers for some years now. I still am. Just that I also realise how brave, tender and self-regulatory I have become. I also have some AoDs, hopefully the next year would be around intentionally making more time for myself. And in that journey, there would perhaps still be literature along with the presence of people who the heart cherishes deeply. Rilke, who breathed his last almost a century back, insists "..we must trust what is difficult, everything alive trusts in it. Everything in nature grows and defends itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition." For, he continues, "why shut off any uneasiness or misery, since we don't know what these conditions are doing inside us.. Let us not persecute oursel...
