Hilary Mantel dead, the far right winning power in Italy, protestors killed in Iran... I could weep. The dog stares at me, in worry or askance.

"Done anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it pass. Let it go."—May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

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