I need solitude. I need space. I need air.

I need the empty fields round me,

and my legs pounding along roads,

and sleep,

and animal existence.

~Virginia Woolf

lasting self-care invites a diamond-on-the-rough kind of life…

inquiry for today~ don’t give into too much doing…

we’ve seen it all and yet we open more deeply…

Doing those deeply unfashionable things—slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting—is a radical act now, but it is essential. This is a crossroads we all know, a moment when you need to shed a skin. If you do, you’ll expose all those painful nerve endings and feel so raw that you’ll need to take care of yourself for a while. If you don’t, then that skin will harden around you.

~Katherine May