solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. any book will do, however, consider reading books that have been waiting a long time to be read. what are you reading? share your book with the whimsey project.
my time with david haskell's the forest unseen: a year's watch in nature has come to an end. the overall take-away from reading this thoughtful volume is stated by the author on the final pages. his relationship with the mandala caused him to feel both kinship and alienation. his realization that he cannot ever fully understand nature, however, is acceptable. he wrote, "somehow the shock of separateness flooded me with relief. the world does not center on me or on my species. the causal center of the natural world is a place that humans had no part in making. life transcends us. it directs our gaze outward. i felt both humbled and uplifted...."
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