tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post8809002293125762497..comments2024-03-25T14:54:55.289-04:00Comments on little augury: the world is too much with usP.Gaye Tapp at Little Auguryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15115534755711063462noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-20216536675116492052010-07-14T04:57:44.925-04:002010-07-14T04:57:44.925-04:00What is ironically reassuring is what you show - t...What is ironically reassuring is what you show - that man has always seen gloom and doom in his condition. Thanks to Pandora, we have never been satisfied always self-critical, yet not only we keep plugging on, but we try to make things beautiful with our much maligned "things." No, we shouldn't be too attached to them but aiming for more beauty in the world can be a way of being closer to Nature - and our own nature.gésbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094108253356167918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-10547174567198139192010-07-13T04:46:23.850-04:002010-07-13T04:46:23.850-04:00"If you have a garden and a library, you have..."If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" - Cicero<br /><br /><br />Best,<br />Slim PaleySlim Paleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278593197402665506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-41741904280380533482010-07-13T00:35:40.298-04:002010-07-13T00:35:40.298-04:00I love Wordsworth but the thought about the contem...I love Wordsworth but the thought about the contempt for capitalism and industrial greed made me wonder if the Unibomber read Wordsworth, Voltaire, Pope, Swift and the like. Perhaps he should have been born in a different time. Me, I stay on the farm, try to winnow my houses and barnfulls of stuff I no longer want nor need. Politically incorrect? That's me.donna bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13507579686738843451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-80239405506644497792010-07-12T17:27:13.214-04:002010-07-12T17:27:13.214-04:00These words stopped me in my sandy tracks today. I...These words stopped me in my sandy tracks today. I personally reconcile by finding moments in nature where I am present. That's where I start. And, from there... mindfulness becomes compassion and love from there. It's the moments in nature and not "things" that provide the most fulfilling moments of my every day. Thank you for these beautiful and poignant words WW. oxMy Dog-Eared Pageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02939044939925149444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-54185582693943990912010-07-12T17:26:41.389-04:002010-07-12T17:26:41.389-04:00Gaye, It is THE quest isn't it! Love this post...Gaye, It is THE quest isn't it! Love this post in particular. BarbaraBarbara Wells Sarudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15277378178650355645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-83692533997460435882010-07-12T17:19:45.470-04:002010-07-12T17:19:45.470-04:00I thought of this poem recently. I had not though...I thought of this poem recently. I had not thought about it in years. I think it is one of those poems wasted on the young. But as I am caught between the tail end of raising my children and the tail end of seeing my parents through their lives, the message resonates with me.<br />Thank you. I enjoy your site.Luluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09783860201792277373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-12298169827291631122010-07-12T15:48:12.967-04:002010-07-12T15:48:12.967-04:00I think it might possibly be impossible to reconci...I think it might possibly be impossible to reconcile if either ends are pursued to an extreme. As in all else... it is balance.<br /><br />To value beauty/quality and man's ability to create it immensely, brings joy and does indeed bring us closer to grace. <br /><br />Cheap, imitations and disposable contradict this belief, for me - which is where I think we wander off track - and where we have been perhaps heading for some time.<br /><br />In terms of what I live with - quality over quantity. A few absolute necessities, chosen selectively - with escapes to the wilderness to balance out the uncertainty of the world. I suspect that I am not alone in this approach.Authorhttp://www.adiscourseontheartsandsciences.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-57907132207330507582010-07-12T14:22:03.983-04:002010-07-12T14:22:03.983-04:00I, for one, am grateful for your lapses into a sen...I, for one, am grateful for your lapses into a sensibility apart from the mindlessness of the frivolous and unimportant. Wordsworth's words are achingly beautiful and poignant in their reminder of the relentlessness of what never seems to leave us.<br /><br />I am grateful to you for the discovery since I have been looking for something eloquent and disturbingly truthful, such as this is.Errant Aesthetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618929624889945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-82902360927380388772010-07-12T13:01:08.623-04:002010-07-12T13:01:08.623-04:00We have our own quiet, beautiful corner of the wor...We have our own quiet, beautiful corner of the world with dogs, trees, flowers a cottage of a house and a cave filled with champagne.<br /><br />The older I get the less "things" have any meaning for me unless they were given to me by someone I love and who loved/loves me. If someone were to say to me today, "what do you want?" I honestly could say, "nothing." Or no, I would say, "I wish my daughter lived closer to me.<br /><br />And then there is love full stop. That's all that really counts even though it almost sounds trite to say it. I really don't care.<br /><br />Thank you for making me stop and think today. One tends not to.<br /><br />(And oh how I adore your blog.)tish jetthttp://afemmeduncertainage.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com