Morning Pages | 21 October 2024
My aspirations are alive and well
Another year around the sun. The song I woke up with in my head is I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life) by The The (YouTube), an artist I've grown up with and always vibed with. I saw them again in concert last month and they were amazing!
Excerpt from Odyssey, Stephen Fry
At any rate, humankind moved on from the gods, the gods no longer appeared before us or demanded sacrifice of us, no longer mated with us, commanded us, cursed us or cast us up to the heavens as constellations.
Except they are still here. Whenever we find our reason wrangling with our instinct, Apollo and Dionysus are contending within us. We contain them all: the cheek and cheerfulness of Hermes, the wisdom of Athena, the rage of Ares, the homeliness of Hestia, the craft of Hephaestus, the pride and propriety of Hera, the majesty of Zeus and the capricious inconsistency, beauty, savagery, insight, glory and madness of the whole blessed pantheon.
