Show Some Love for Your Brain: Take Time to Let It Play Every Day

It occurs to me that maybe my inner mental life has taken a bit of a ferocious turn lately.  It may have something to do with the daily reading of the Washington Post that life under a megalomaniac president who daily betrays our allies and our national interests for the sake of his narcissistic toddleresque obsessions has forced upon me.  

So how to chill out when the world seems to be swirling away in a golden toilet bowl with spray-tan stains on the flush handle?  I have found that taking a praise of random old prose—in this case a 100-year-old study guide for students of stenography—and messing around with erasure deletions and collage images leads me to a zone of playful happiness I’d forgotten, in my morose fury, existed.

So please take a moment to stretch with me as I play with the workings of consciousness.  If you are willing to listen, the unsummoned subtle modes of the mind may guide you to a spacious freedom that no politician will ever be able to create for you.  And once you feel that freedom, you will naturally gravitate to the love and compassion that is the true nature of the human mind, no matter what the politicians try to tell you.  

Hope you enjoy:


Lawrence Sutin