Joan Didion – Dec 27, Iyengar All Levels

Sadly, we lost Joan Didion just before Christmas. A lion in every way packed into a tiny body. Thankfully we have her words. Although this excerpt is from a college commencement address, I think we can all use to be reminded of the sentiment. It seemed like how she lived.

…I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride m it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it…" - UC Riverside commencement address (1975).