The Shadows of the World By Catherine Viel

[Manuel Tavares]

The Shadows of the World
By Catherine Viel
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-shadows-of-world.html

No matter the pull toward brink…
There is a time for everything.
~Ross Gay, Sorrow is Not My Name

It’s hard to settle to anything this morning. I’m in the trailing energy from yesterday’s bout of accomplishing stuff with our handyman friend. Half an hour of “doing“ this morning reminds me, via body discomfort, not to overdo.

A couple of friends are experiencing the hardest of hard times—family members or pets dying, or nearest and dearest suffering turmoil.

My empathy gear engages, but only partially. This feels like an excellent opportunity to practice maintaining integrity with my human, emotional self while refraining from feeling too much of others’ pain.

I haven’t done this deliberately. Perhaps disengaging from over-involvement in others’ suffering is a necessary evolution from where I was, to where I am, to where I will be...
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