Thursday, September 7, 2023
Try to remember every last detail of yesterday. I did this for quite a while. I kept a 5-year journal and there were five sections dividing the page for each day of the year. I wrote down everything I could remember about each day, for about 8 years! Then I stopped. It was hard to recall all that I had experienced each day. And for a while, I’d go back and read what I had done the year before, and it all seemed so boring! But I’m not bored today! Words are tawdry, skeletal, fractional symbols for what you experience from day to day.
The world of sensation is deep, rich, and so abundant that putting it into words is laughable. I was on a walk this morning and began soaking in all the sights and sounds. I noticed the dampness that highlighted the sweet smells of the changing landscape. The grand oak trees unfurled into the sky, and the moss covering their branches draped down like elegant chandeliers. There were so many colors and so much varying texture, sounds and sensations, that I can’t even tell you about them in the detail they deserve.
There were also so many thoughts in my head! I had to shush them so as to not disturb the fullness of my experience. It was all too abundant! I couldn’t take it all in, it was a panoramic, multidimensional experience that could easily be missed. There is too much going on for you to describe your life in synoptic ways. How could you boil down experience? How can you reduce who you are to a few words? You are beyond words. There’s more to you than words represent. Don’t cheat yourself by describing yourself in ways you do. Words, even if complimentary, will always make you feel minuscule. That’s because they are minuscule, and you are far beyond their limits.