READ OUTSIDE MY ORBIT
balancing discernment and receptivity…and the 5 steps of prayer
There is so much out there to read but we have limited hours in our lifetime. Less when we parse those hours with other enlivening things. And so we choose what to read. Our tools of discrimination vary, but in the end there is so much we do not read. We are being pragmatic and practical.
My pragmatism has cut an orbit into all things I deem worth my time to read. Yes, there are new poets and some new fiction, but the majority of what I read is heavily weighted in material supporting my recent career change: holistic healing. Hence, materials related to therapeutic massage and movement modalities, bioenergetics, unified physics, myth, liminal practices, water and plant new science I pull into my orbit and the books pile up like satellites on my table.
Reading matter I deflect are from old stories I have already processsed, such as Catholicism, and matter that is contrary to my interests, such as those imbued with fear. These are flung, like asteroids, from the galaxy I have created. This approach addresses the piles of books on my table so that although the stacks remain the books within are ever refreshed.
