... a sweet suggestion by Melissa Kirsch in her 2025-06-14 New York Times morning email newsletter essay "Breathing Room". The last paragraph summarizes:A wise friend advised me when I was worrying recently to “move the horizon closer.” I love this. My eyes are always cast on some distant point in the future. Moving the horizon closer means to keep my thoughts and fantasies and fears contained to this plane, this moment, without spinning out into the atmosphere. The here and now is all we have, and it’s a lot, for everyone. You don’t have to consult an oracle to know this. But the reminder is useful: Where are you right now? What is happening in that space, in that moment? How can you inhabit it fully? How can you move the horizon closer?
... or perhaps, in other words:
o poka e selo ma sewi
| toki pona | loose translation |
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| o poka e selo ma sewi! | O make-near the land-sky boundary! |
(cf Larger Inside (2004-05-11), Seeing Nature (2005-07-19) Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain (2014-01-18), Mantra - Mind Like Sky (2016-02-29), ...) - ^z - 2025-06-15