Simplify, simplify, simplify.*
Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes all the scraps of information that come by seem to cohere into a picture; sometimes a pattern emerges. I yearn for patterns and meanings, since for me a sense of meaningless brings on depression. Orientation and purpose ward it off.**
Rebecca Solnit
There exists on the far side of complexity,
Some distilled form of simplicity,
Thinness forged more thinly,
Silence falling deeper –
A few words quietly spoken and then
the silence;
I offer remnants and oddments^ for
you to add to others you are gathering, out of which
you create your purpose.
*Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (adapted by Nicholas Bone);
**Rebecca Solnit’s No Straight Roads Take You There;
^This is all Thin|Silence aims to be each day.
THIN|SILENCE 