“Nothing matters. Nothing matters. Nothing matters. It became my mantra.
December 18, 2018 6:10 AM Subscribe
Holding hands with a chimp Jesse Bering brings perspective from his reflection brought on while caring for a chimpanzee named Noelle.
I also really like this part: "The effect was that, by making me care less, it made me value my life more. That’s what the emotion of awe is, really... I suppose it’s the beauty of resigning yourself to the truth of an eternity without you.... Shame has a way of losing its sting once you realize that its venom is man-made."
It reminds me of this part of Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese" --
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
posted by salvia at 5:38 PM on December 18, 2018 [3 favorites]
It reminds me of this part of Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese" --
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
posted by salvia at 5:38 PM on December 18, 2018 [3 favorites]
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