I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning.
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3 comments:
Excellent quote. It's true, the body really does respond to stress like it's an ongoing emergency.
Love those pelicans.
thank you Robin, you are always here, thanks so much.
This is just what I needed to find today -- the combination of your pelican photo and Natalie Goldberg's words about stress.
I'm itchy all over from stress that seems to be related to the fact that my years of unemployment are coming to an end on March 9 (-:
Not sure why my body is reacting as if being employed is an emergency. It's done that before, and I've believed it and not taken jobs I was hired for.
This time I'm not going to let it keep me from at least trying to work and seeing what happens.
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