{"id":6,"date":"2005-09-14T02:21:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/astra\/2005\/09\/14\/karma\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T02:21:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T07:21:12","slug":"karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/astra\/2005\/09\/14\/karma\/","title":{"rendered":"Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some day it’ll come around… have some pity amidst your anger.
\nAre you happy now? If I were driven just a bit more to desperation then
\nI would ridiculously blame this all on your prescient words that night
\nafter drinks at S.
\nWords are seeds, they say.<\/p>\n

I got my car yesterday. Hyundai Elantra GLS 5dr, sterling silver, and it is
\nunique and cute. Not like all those admittedly excellently made but
\nboring Honda Civics. Hyundai cars are well made too, they just have a
\nbit of a bum rap and an image of cheapo disposable cars that has been
\nslow to fade. It handles well too, and the engine practically purrs compared to the previous three cars we test drove.<\/p>\n

The Institute for Systems Biology has a new website, which is a
\nconsiderable improvement over previous one which was disorganized and
\nreally hard to navigate.<\/p>\n

Too drained to write more; I just had a conversation that made me
\nacutely aware of the fragility of my state – being driven to tears by a
\nfriend’s offhand remark which was meant to be an expression of surprise
\nand a piece of advice. I’ll
\njust put up Emerson’s poem as a reminder to myself. But it is very well
\nto
\nrefer the poem to those who are in the proper position to derive
\nhealthy comfort from the wise
\nwords; not so for me… I see now that what every reading does for me
\nis twist the knife in a bit deeper, and I am sustained by that pain. Ha, I
\nmust be a
\nmasochist, as you’ve accused me of being.<\/p>\n

Give all to love;<\/span>
Obey thy heart;<\/span>
Friends, kindred, days,<\/span>
\nEstate, good fame,<\/span>
\nPlans, credit, and the muse;<\/span>
Nothing refuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Tis a brave master,<\/span>
\nLet it have scope,<\/span>
\nFollow it utterly,<\/span>
Hope beyond hope;<\/span>
\nHigh and more high,<\/span>
\nIt dives into noon,<\/span>
\nWith wing unspent,<\/span>
\nUntold intent;<\/span>
\nBut ’tis a god,<\/span>
\nKnows its own path,<\/span>
\nAnd the outlets of the sky.<\/span>
\n‘Tis not for the mean,<\/span>
\nIt requireth courage stout,<\/span>
\nSouls above doubt,<\/span>
Valor unbending;<\/span>
\nSuch ’twill reward,<\/span>
\nThey shall return<\/span>
More than they were,<\/span>
\nAnd ever ascending.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leave all for love;<\/span>
\nYet, hear me, yet,<\/span>
\nOne word more thy heart behoved,<\/span>
\nOne pulse more of firm endeavor,<\/span>
\nKeep thee to-day,<\/span>
\nTo-morrow, for ever,<\/span>
\nFree as an Arab<\/span>
\nOf thy beloved.<\/span>
\nCling with life to the maid;<\/span>
\nBut when the surprise,<\/span>
\nVague shadow of surmise,<\/span>
\nFlits across her bosom young<\/span>
\nOf a joy apart from thee,<\/span>
\nFree be she, fancy-free,<\/span>
Do not thou detain a hem,<\/span>
\nNor the palest rose she flung<\/span>
\nFrom her summer diadem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though thou loved her as thyself,<\/span>
\nAs a self of purer clay,<\/span>
\nTho’ her parting dims the day,<\/span>
\nStealing grace from all alive,<\/span>
\nHeartily know,<\/span>
\nWhen half-gods go,<\/span>
\nThe gods arrive. <\/span>\n<\/div>\n

        – R. Emerson, “Give All To Love”<\/p>\n

Please heal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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