Although she has deadlines to meet she tends to wander from the computer to preach hope, snort with laughter, cook subversively, ponder life’s deeper meaning, talk to livestock, sing to bees, walk dogs, make messy art, concoct tinctures, watch foreign films, and hide in books. On occasion she tweets from the Twitter perch lives on a small farm. She runs the highly informative Free Range Learning community page on Facebook and the entirely silly Subversive Cooking page on Facebook. She also leads workshops on memoir, poetry, and creative thinking. She works as a book editor as well as editor of Braided Way: Faces and Voices of Spiritual Practice. Laura’s background includes teaching nonviolence, writing collaborative poetry with nursing home residents, facilitating support groups for abuse survivors, and writing sardonic greeting cards. Laura Grace Weldon is the author of the poetry collections Portals, Blackbird and Tending as well as Free Range Learning, a handbook of natural learning. As he writes, “In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb’d away. We may plan for tomorrow but cannot count on tomorrow. However, this translation is not accurate to the. The carpal tunnel is a passageway through which nerves of the hand pass. He was writing, in this passage, about each of us facing an unforeseen future. Carpe diem, carpe noctem, and carpe vitam can translate as seize the day, seize the night, and seize life. What carpe diem is really saying is: Hey, you (singular) Seize the day As a side note, the word carpo meaning to pluck or divide is the derivative of the word carpal in carpal tunnel. This makes more sense in the context of Horace’s poem as well. It has to do with cherishing the fullness of the day itself. This approach has to do with paying attention and carefully harvesting what’s ready. To pluck the day I’d grasp it gently as I would a daisy, nipping it off low on the stem to keep the flower fresh. To pick the day, I’d reach for it as I would a peach on a tree, knowing the ripest fruit nearly falls off at the touch. Thankfully, what Horace more likely meant by the word carpe is “pick or pluck.” Those words come across quite differently to me. As Robin Williams’ character in Dead Poets Societytells his students, “Seize the day, boys. Yet we live in a culture that admires people who grab what they can, chew it up, and reach for more. I don’t feel called upon to fling myself from bed and stomp through the day taking giant bites of ever more amazing experiences. Seizing is much more sudden and forceful than my days appreciate. Way back in 23 BCE, the Roman poet Horace exhorted people to carpe diem. Those two words have been translated by schoolchildren and repeated in pop culture for so long that we all know carpe diem means “seize the day.” Except, it doesn’t.
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