Jujube/summer

- expedition, resilience, serendipity

- revelation about the/my tent

- back to understanding love and myself, the past flaring up through a specific encounter

- long correspondence, conversations and visits of old friends

- honesty, diplomacy, serenity

- more nuanced understanding of empathy, communication, connection

readings/teachings:

Alain de Botton/The School of Life - love (the course of), eros, self-inquiry, stoicism
Hilary Jacobs Hendel (2nd time) - core emotions, healing
Bréne Brown - vulnerability, imperfection, shame, spirituality
Lars Svendsen - a philosophy of loneliness
article: United by Feelings - "the permeability of perception in fact cuts against the argument that emotion is another form of cognition since it reveals a physiological causal force (viz, the affective systems) that shapes and constrains perception and cognition." - links to "core emotions" which Handel based her book on/A General Theory of Love (three brains)

- refer to the document 'letting go and focusing instead' when lost