QUIETING DFN X RESTING STATE NARRATIVE X ? AWARENESS -PROMISORY MATERIALISM

 

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Brain scans revealed that the lonely had more activity in the default mode network.

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The brain’s response to this music is akin to money and food.

Music that is surprising or unexpected sends a burst of pleasure through the brain, a study shows.

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Reading is an adventure. Adventures are about the unknown.

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ONE ART
by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

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Bishop died not long after composing “One Art,” having requested the last two lines of another poem of hers as an epitaph:

All the untidy activity continues,
awful but cheerful.

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Any time we are abruptly thrown off course, it is an opportunity to reexamine our lives, our values, and where we are headed.

—Judy Lief, “Welcome to the Real World”  

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