This Side of the Horizon By Catherine Viel

[Manuel Tavares]

This Side of the Horizon
By Catherine Viel
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I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never —”
“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on.
~Stephen Crane, “I saw a man pursuing the horizon”

My reaction to truly disturbing information used to be fear paralysis. Especially if the information was health-related, I would feel constriction creeping in, like a hunter with a net to trap a grazing gazelle.

But the gazelle is not stupid. It senses the hunter and the net, takes a few steps away, then bounds toward the trees and disappears. Then there’s the opposite reaction, the rabbit, who freezes just outside its burrow, paralyzed by terror.

I neither freeze like the rabbit nor instinctively zip away like the gazelle, nowadays. Instead, curiously, I find myself reaching for joy.

What would give me the most joy right now? How can I arrange something fun? What delightful self-care can I draw toward me?....+at
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