I find welcome solitude in the mountains, too. Lake Placid, December 2011.
” . . . be patient and trust the great and indelible solitude at work in you.”
Rilke always brings me to the place inside where my humanity resides: not my desires, nor my to-do list, nor my ego. And it’s such a precious relief to feel that simplicity (though it’s a complex simplicity). I am human. I am a being. I am an experiment, an accident, a chance. Therefore I can do no wrong. Therefore I am always okay.
Thank you, too, to Lindsey and her beautiful, thoughtful blog, for being the source who brings me to these thoughts as often as Rilke. (And some days she just brings Rilke, like today.)
Happy Friday, friends. Enjoy your being today, if only for a moment.
About stacy
I am a writer, author, mother, longtime magazine editor (20 years in the business, 6 as editor in chief of Redbook), optimist, and, above all, a searcher. Right now, I'm searching for whom I'm really meant to be, after living through a series of very jarring changes that bumped me out of the life I was living: a son, then a divorce, a cataclysimcally messed-up house, which led to a book (Falling Apart In One Piece), and then, one week after that book came out, my parents both fell gravely ill, I resigned from my job (and maybe my career), my son got very scared, my parents died, and at the same time, my boyfriend moved in with my son and me. Since then I've been trying to figure out what's next. Or, in other words, how to fill in the blanks.
Love, love, love that quote – and happy (and not entirely surprised) that it speaks to you as much as it does to me. xox
I often feel this way about your blog. Thank you.
oh yes.
*deep exhale.*
a good quote.
a great sentiment.
and a welcome visit to your virtual home on the interweb.
smiling at you from within a skyscraper in the sniper fire of midtown manhattan
_teamgloria xx
Thank you – and Lindsey – for this reminder.
We get so caught up in the fray, and filling the air with words (noise?), we sometimes forget the gifts in solitude, if we allow ourselves to experience them.