The Lighthouse of Love
I sat in front of Auntie Bethea, the house smelled of collard greens made with turkey tails, cornbread with honey and sweet butter. She wore a beautiful dress. It is the place I came to lay my…
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Can We Derive Pleasure for Ourselves In The Worst of Times?
Deriving Pleasure From a Pandemic
I have taken up writing since the onset of this pandemic and it has served my inner creative mojo quite well.
Dare I say I am deriving pleasure from writing during a pandemic?
And just like that the question of “how dare I” pulls me right out of my writing pleasure zone and into a world that feels fearful, uncertain, and just plain scary.
What if there is something we are missing when navigating the land mines of this most auspicious year?
Our ability to cultivate pleasure is one of the most needed medicines on our planet right now.
Pleasure is the feeling and expression we experience when we are having Joy, Happiness, Elation, and Ecstacy. More synonyms elicit pleasure as well, but you get the idea.
What’s most important about understanding Pleasure is that it is an experience of being out of control. Pleasure has no boundaries, no real limits, and can last for as long as we are willing to have it.
Pleasure can feel uncomfortable long term because that feeling of being out of control can feel quite unsafe. As a result, we’ve trained ourselves to become comfortable in our discomfort. Yikes!
I am often drawn back to the diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was locked into an attic with her family to escape persecution in World War II.
A young lady who managed to write in her diary during a horrific holocaust that eventually took her life and the majority of her family’s lives.
Anne’s maturity as a young teenager inspires us to dig deeper into our humanity and find the courage that exists in all of us.
She reminds us…
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