You all know of my fascination with the number 3.
I like to keep my To Do list at three, it feels digestible. The hobbit in me is horrified by three meals a day, but my shirts are begging me to cut second breakfast and elevenses, at least. Dinner OR supper? Ugh, fine.
Three is a mystical number—for good, and sometimes not—and when things show up à trois, I take note. I just hit another.
It has to do with the mindfulness movement, and the subtext of the words we chose—“alive” and “awake”—which suggests some people are sleepwalking through life and missing out the on the real stuff, the good stuff, the right stuff.
First, I noticed a variation of it in a passage from William Blake vs the World by John Higgs; and then another in a book on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT.) Most recently, it popped up in a Substack post about Vincent Van Gogh’s advice to his youngest sister, Wilhelmina. Ding, ding, ding!
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