Thursday, January 19, 2023

Mixtape Challenge: Living Like Weasels (Side Two) - Plug Into the Pulse

 Side 2: Plug Into that Pulse

Remember Annie Dilliard? We mentioned her essay, “Living Like Weasels” on Side One. Her essay continues…

“The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse. This is yielding, not fighting.”

We are creatures of purpose. We just need to find that purpose. As the Avett Brothers sing in the opening song of this Side 2, “Decide what to be and go be it.”

 Need encouraged, well Jimmy Cliff has it right. “You Can Get It If You Really Want.”

 What is “It?”

 Maybe you’ll paint a masterpiece. Maybe you’ll take a trip, or speak when you have something to say. Maybe you’ll find happiness and stay there.

 We can be Better People. We can help people for no reason. Just to help.

 So, you’re not where you want to be? Then know when to move on. When to get going.

 Just don’t stop, and don’t let anyone else stop you.

 Be a weasel. “A weasel doesn’t “attack” anything; a weasel lives as he’s meant to, yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity.”

 Find that single necessity, plug into that pulse, and yield to something better.

 Peace.

Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2LoZBIqMOAaPtmOusesw3r?si=7ab64e57f219489e



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