Are You What You Love?

I find the repeated surfacing of the notion of attention that comes throughout your book very important. It's not really something we use to live our lives so much as just it just is our lives. And if you never pay attention to a given relationship in your life at all, could you really be said to have that relationship inyour life at all? So that idea from Mary Oliver that you have to attend to things in order to care about them at all. I guess it's the central way of talking about our finite time and how it is just a question of what we pay attention to.

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