Dismantling the Theater of Fear

[Manuel Tavares]

Dismantling the Theater of Fear

By Catherine Viel

Posted April 11, 2022

Everyone has agony, the difference is I try to take my agony home with me now and then and teach it to sing. ~ Arthur Miller

 

 

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It’s so tranquil this morning, I almost don’t want to spoil it with words. There’s a lovely sense of drifting on a tide of bird song and breezes, dozens of vibrant pink flowers bobbing in the gentle movement of air.

 

When I pay attention to the natural world rather than my internal system of worry, I believe peacefulness can be mine. I don’t need to pick apart the elements of my environment and myself that I have decided are troubling, that I don’t like, that I wish were different.

 

Perhaps I can absorb a sense of letting things be, bottle it in some etheric memory tube, and carefully place it where I may find it again.

 

I’m quite sure Nature doesn’t need such a reminder. Even the hawk being chased by the crows returns to the nest and continues to build. The dried grasses are stuffed into the intricate weave of the nest, and the hawk soars again from the tangle of palm fronds to seek more...>>>https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/04/dismantling-theater-of-fear....