Last night as i left work there was a breeze that passed over the parking lot that felt atypically tropical. i heard the nearby seagulls at the shore and felt a wave of nostalgia. Not sure for what precisely. My thoughts wandered to the days i spent in rural Japan. I was in the midst of my 20's and had a lot of time to read, think, and smoke. A lot of smoking, unfortunately. One writer that kept me positively buoyant was my favorite Pisces gal, Anais Nin (1903-1977). This woman really knew how to use a diary.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes of hers. Each of these have been profound at different times in my life--especially the Japan/Korea years and thereafter:
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country."
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."
Are there any other Nin fans out there? Reply silently, telepathically, or anonymously. i'll take calls off air.
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