Are you old? (How old is old?) Still young? U30? And how does it feel? Do you try to enhance yourself or are you happy when everything about you stays the same, give or take a little with the passing years? If you believe in improvement, there is a lot to be done, and there are many ways to beautify and strengthen the body while achieving an ever more mindful and intelligent headspace, paired with a benevolent attitude towards the rest of the world. We all know that whole industries profit from these constraints but we cannot refrain from «working» on ourselves, in order to reach optimal capacity and contentment. Fall is here, the season when it becomes more difficult to stay fit without artificial means. I am pleading for more coziness, less effort and lots of heartiness. Will there be a day when we are no longer allowed to have weaknesses?
Snugly,
Susanne G. Seiler
After the Sea-Ship
After the Sea-Ship – after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves – liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface.
Walt Whitman