For The Love Of…Walking Lightly by Artemis Crow

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…to throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…”

– Aldous Huxley, Island

I saw this quote in a meme recently, and it has uplifted me at a time when I greatly needed it. My mother is very sick; we’re losing her to cancer. So many times each day I find myself holding my breath, literally and figuratively. This pain isn’t unique to me; we all have to deal with the stress of impending loss and the grief when that end comes. I wish I had a glib answer that would mitigate life’s lows, but alas, I don’t. 

Huxley’s words helped me. I hope they help you, too.

Wherever you are in life’s journey, no matter what troubles haunt you, please remember to breathe deeply and walk lightly…

May your words flow freely,

Artemis

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