“Travel is not about escaping life, but a way to keep life from escaping us.”
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“This month’s mantra to “Shed the unnecessary to live in Kodachrome” was inspired by a Phoenix Tales Podcast guest, Eden Grimaldi. Her philosophy was borne from her battle with breast cancer, this harrowing experience realigning her own perspective about what is truly important in life...to live and appreciate the here and now since we don’t know how many here and now any of us may have in front of us.”
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This month’s mantra of “Enjoy the questions as much as the answers,” felt prescient after my recent relapse of my depression. It’s hard to enjoy the question of “why”, or worse, the lamentation of “why me” when you feel your suffering is singular. Instead of falling easily into the victimhood of my own disease by lingering on obsessing over elusive answers to the universal “why,” I have been spending the time examining how “why” can become the road signs, flashing its warning before I fall off of the cliff and when nothing or no one is able to keep me upright any longer.
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As the tug of war between motherhood and daughterhood with the winning side yanking me across the finish line of failure takes place each day, this mantra of Failure is Relative has kept me from losing all hope and not succumbing to the deepest, darkest, nihilistic parts of my nature.
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Doing nothing during a year in which we have been cooped up in our homes feels less like a luxury, rather as an extension of the torture of this Covid life. Yet even during this lockdown, making time to sit, to stare out the window, and to be doing nothing has helped me to better endure the challenges of this year.
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There is no movie that can take the place of a world that I can picture with the aid of my own creativity and the writer’s direction. Bar none.
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