A Reflection on FRIENDS & Remembrance of Things PAST

11/02/23 • 26 min

The inspiration for this episode is a sonnet–a Shakespearean sonnet–with which you’re unlikely to be familiar;

Sonnet 30, you see, isn’t commonly ranked among Shakespeare’s finest works. It’s neither read to romantic lovers, inscribed on elegant tombstones, nor quoted in popular films.

Indeed, you’ll very seldom hear a recitation of its fourteen forgotten lines.

And yet, to our purposes, my dear friend, I think it’s ideally suited.

I hope that you enjoy this meditation on loss, regret, remorse, failure, and–that by which all sadness in life is wiped away–friends.

Do me the honor, my dear friend, of “liking” this episode, subscribing to this channel for daily doses of mindfulness, and sharing it with a friend.

The inspiration for this episode is a sonnet–a Shakespearean sonnet–with which you’re unlikely to be familiar;

Sonnet 30, you see, isn’t commonly ranked among Shakespeare’s finest works. It’s neither read to romantic lovers, inscribed on elegant tombstones, nor quoted in popular films.

Indeed, you’ll very seldom hear a recitation of its fourteen forgotten lines.

And yet, to our purposes, my dear friend, I think it’s ideally suited.

I hope that you enjoy this meditation on loss, regret, remorse, failure, and–that by which all sadness in life is wiped away–friends.

Do me the honor, my dear friend, of “liking” this episode, subscribing to this channel for daily doses of mindfulness, and sharing it with a friend.

Previous Episode

A Meditation For A RAINY Day: Tracing The “History Of A Single Raindrop”

“How interesting (it is) to trace the history of a single raindrop!”

In this guided meditation, we’ll join the American outdoorsman, conservationist, and writer John Muir as we contemplate the dramatic life story of a single raindrop.

Muir was a man of extraordinary depth.

In this episode, we’ll accompany him to lofty poetic heights–high, in fact, as the craggy summits atop which he made his home–before following him and his raindrop down to the oceans, rivers, puddles, and flower cups in which they came to rest.

I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing I enjoy better than watching the rain fall. It’s a divine spectacle of nature, a beautiful production of sound and movement than which there’s simply none more wondrous in all the world.

Hopefully this mediation enhances what is, quite without my meager contribution, a transcendent experience.

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With affection,

Daniel

Next Episode

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | Fall Asleep With Me

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-English novelist.

He was born in 1857 and died in 1924.

His twenty years spent as a sailor in the British merchant navy inspired many of his literary works, among which Heart of Darkness is most highly acclaimed.

In this episode of “Fall Asleep with Me”, I read this work’s opening scene. It takes place on the tranquil waters of the River Thames.

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