Your inside person does not have age. It is all the ages you have ever been and the age you are at this moment.*
Anne Lamott

*From Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything.

Our grandson’s new game: what’s inside the shaker: lentils, paperclips, pumpkin seeds (he likes saying this very much), beans?

It’s a game for life, of course.

You can’t ever be sure the future will go the way you want. But you can usually (if admittedly not always) be sure that when it fails to go the way you want, you’ll have the wherewithal to cope.*
Oliver Burkeman

*Oliver Burkeman, quoted in Sam Radford’s blog: The wherewithal to cope.

Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.*
Wendell Berry

*Wendell Berry, quoted in Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything.

Yet without realising it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. […] Yet beauty is so quietly woven through our ordinary days that we hardly notice it. Everywhere there is tenderness, care and kindness, there is beauty.*

*From John O’Donohue’s Divine Beauty.

Humility is the most important meal of the day.

In other words, man should only play with beauty, and he should play only with beauty.*

*From Friedrich Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man. 

I have different walks for different questions or problems or ideas that I’m dealing with, a whole chain of maybe fifty different walks that I do for different things. 
Iain Sinclair

I can only meditate when I am walking.  When I stop, I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs. 
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

I’m taking a few days out for grandparenting fun and games, but there’ll be a doodle here each day.

You can’t ever be sure the future will go the way you want. But you can usually (if admittedly not always) be sure that when it fails to go the way you want, you’ll have the wherewithal to cope.*
Oliver Burkeman

If you stick with writing, you will get better and better, and you can start to learn the important lessons: who you really are, and how all of us can live in the face of death, and how important it is to pay much better attention to life, which is why you are here.**
Anne Lamott

I do not hold with the doctrine of original sin, but something strange does happen to us because of consciousness and trauma.

Life can become messy, ugly even, and smaller.

Yet, it can also be transcendent and our wherewithal can make all the difference, à la Frederick Buechner’s assertion that we find our purpose where our deepest gladness meets the world’s greatest need.

Our wherewithal forms our seeing:

Both the gaze that sees and the object that is seen construct themselves in the one act of vision. So much depends on how we see things.^

Today’s convergence of texts caused me to think of what ca happen in dreamwhispering: how people can find their wherewithal. That is, their values, talents and energies with which help them to see a larger llife.

*Oliver Burkeman, quoted in Sam Radford’s blog: The wherewithal to cope;
**From Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything;
^From John O’Donohue’s Divine Beauty.