This and Thats
recommendations in the realm of entertainment
Greetings sweet friends,
This week I’d like to share some delightful this and thats.
Listening to “The Foxes of Hydesville” has been a highlight of my September. It is spooky, historical, and very well-acted and produced. It is a radio play broken up into nine podcast episodes. If you’re looking to get into the Halloween spirit, this is a superb place to start.
I am re-watching “Shitt’s Creek,” because I am sad and it is funny. It is currently on Hulu, and if you’ve never seen it…and if you like sitcoms…this one has been the most fun and easy-watching for the past long while, IMO.
Today at 2PM CDT, there is a ZOOM Clown Show hosted by Barnaby King! It is just an hour, it will involve clowns and politics, and I hope you and I have the time to be there. If you’re interested, here is the link to the Facebook Event to read more about it. If you don’t have Facebook, here is a link to the show Citizen Clown.
And finally, a quote I came upon this week that is giving me much guidance at this time of my loneliness in life:
“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, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So 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,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
― Aldous Huxley , Island
Until next week, my sweets.
A hui ho,
Julia