Diane Ackerman
Diane AckermanThe Baby is the ultimate immigrant, fallen into life from an unmappable world, and full of wonder and confusion.
Biking is being mentally far far away from civilization. When biking, the world is breaking someone else's heart.
The Brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas, Dizzie Gillespie's jazz, Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.
Deep play is not concerned with an activity, like shallow play. It has to do with attitude or an extraordinarily intense state.
Deep play is that more intensified form of play that puts us in a rapturous mood and awakens the most creative, sentient, and joyful aspects of our inner selves.
Deep play is the ecstatic form of play. In its thrall, all the play elements are visible, but they're taken to intense and transcendent heights.
Deep play is those moments of feeling whole, or being in the moment of deep play which we spend our lives in pursuit of.
The Dog is but the owner, extended through a leash, to that part of his own personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.
Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
