The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.51

romantic urbanism, second renaissance, heavy dreams

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Dear Reader,

I apologize for the delay in this months Rabbit Holes - the last few weeks have been a whirlwind of getting situated in graduate school: driving from San Francisco to Boston in 2 weeks, moving in, orientation, shopping hundreds of courses, and finally receiving the 1st printed copy of the rabbit holes coffee table book (!)

Sometimes when I blink into the sunlight that pools into the campus yard, I can hardly believe i’m here, yet I simultaneously feel a deep homecoming. Something releases and relaxes. Deep down I know am in the right container. One which supports the state of being where I feel the most “me”: a sink into profound depth, tickling of the edges, a thrust towards infinite expanse.

In many ways the state of being that curating Rabbit Holes puts me in - now extended to more pockets of my space-time continuum.

Reader, how can you stabilize more of the awe you seek into continuous lived experience?

Wishing you a beautiful transition into fall,

Patricia

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here are the visuals, words, poetry, and art so far that stirred my soul for the month of August:

1. 💻 Open this issue in your web browser (not phone) at a time where you have at least 30 mins to read.

2. ☕ Grab hot tea or coffee

3. 👚 Change into something comfortable and ideally sit against some fluffy pillows, with your computer on your lap at a 45 degree angle

4. Light a candle 🕯️

5. 💨 Take 5 breaths and listen to this meditation

6. Meditate on a question you have and run it by this iching reader

7. 🎵 Press play for music. Listen while you read this issue.

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🎷 If you’re in a jazzy mood:

🎵 more into moody electronic:

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-Zoë Lianne

Antonio Frilli, “Sweet Dreams”, Marble sculpture (𝟣𝟪𝟫𝟤).

Georgia O’Keeffe with Chow, 1975 (Photo by Juan Hamilton, via Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)

Claude Monet, Springtime, 1872, via the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore

you don’t become fully alive by killing off aspects of life you dislike. you become fully alive by expanding until your life has space for all your fear, pain & sadness. eventually, you realize these are life itself. there is nothing apart from life. there is nothing except life. - Grant Belsterling