Good call out. How much do we internalize the idea of being finite. We hear it and repeat it but do we understand it and live it? This is an opportunity for self-discovery. Great piece!
We need to lose in order to make way for the new. I've been through the cycle of death and rebirth a few times--am in one right now. Mostly our culture tells us to be afraid of loss, of the deaths.
Loved reading this. I always think: I wish I could write like Sasha. Thank you!
“Lithuania is a shadowy semi-entity that looms in the distance, at present. When it becomes clear that I won’t go there, that part of my mental map will be shaded in permanently. I will lose fields and mountains, cities of millions, lovely Lithuanians that I will never have use for.”
Beautiful.
Welcome to midlife, Sasha.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Good call out. How much do we internalize the idea of being finite. We hear it and repeat it but do we understand it and live it? This is an opportunity for self-discovery. Great piece!
I loved this piece - thanks. In a similar vein: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art and https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/when-things-go-missing
A beautiful read that was much needed. Thank you wholeheartedly for writing this.
"The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
..
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster."
elizabeth bishop
We need to lose in order to make way for the new. I've been through the cycle of death and rebirth a few times--am in one right now. Mostly our culture tells us to be afraid of loss, of the deaths.
Loved reading this. I always think: I wish I could write like Sasha. Thank you!
What’s that about Lithuanians? I am from there, so I am intrigued :)
Reader for around a month or so, so maybe there is something earlier readers know already.
Thanks :)
Chuckled at:
“Lithuania is a shadowy semi-entity that looms in the distance, at present. When it becomes clear that I won’t go there, that part of my mental map will be shaded in permanently. I will lose fields and mountains, cities of millions, lovely Lithuanians that I will never have use for.”
Thanks.
I plan to read it again.
really enjoyed this one