Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

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True north

True north

When a body feels lost

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Aug 05, 2023
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“Study for Stars” (1948), M.C. Escher

I read somewhere this week that sometimes it can be hard to maintain “true north,” an inner sense of direction, amid the world’s magnetic forces. Things like our consumer culture, the doomy headlines. The hot crush who doesn’t know you’re alive.

I love true north as an idea. It’s north according to an axis, not magnet…

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