Recipe for a Perfect Day in Solitude

“…when [you] remember feeling joyfully bound to the whole earth or even universe — [those moments] are most likely to be associated with being alone, and often alone outside.”

found on p. 109 under “Explore Reverie” in How to Be Alone by Sara Maitland

How true, how true. I stumbled across this observation recently reading Sara Maitland’s How to Be Alone. This book was indeed more of a “how to” on exactly what it promises rather than the memoir I expected extolling the virtues of the author l...