Sunday, September 27, 2020

"see how the sunlight feels..."

27 September 2020: "It really isn't that hard to frame things, and people, in the most forgiving way available with the facts on hand. You will give people breaks they don't deserve sometimes, sure, but I'd rather be wrong occasionally than preemptively aggrieved and suspicious all the time. Wouldn't you? If you're unsure, would it hurt to try busting that rut, to see how sunlight feels?" --Carolyn Hax in her advice column in today's Washington Post 

This really is the way to live, isn't it? Or the way we should want to live? I try to articulate myself, but she does it so simply here. Might just put clip that passage out and carry it with me. I am trying, I am trying...

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