“If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Posturing isn’t a bad thing.  We all assume a posture for living each day we live.  The posture is our chosen superstructure of body that holds in the windy, vicissitudes of the day’s common business.  The wisdom of life is shown in the posture assumed and I know of few poets whose innate wisdom exceeds Rilke.  His posture demotes the seething mind behind the appreciation of breath, life and what you have left of health. Making good decisions on the stormy shores of 2025 when core institutions are suffering violent attacks is profoundly difficult. This writer has already warned of burn out and bitterness.  But there is no requirement to be burned out and bitter to do the good work needed to be done for this day.  I recommend a posture of health and Rilke points the way.

Modest Proposal for Good

Wake up each morning and put on your posture before you dress for business.  Anger and rage are not postures but rather hungry emotions that should never rule the whole of you.  There is always so much more that is also true in life .  Consume first thing each morning a lungful of your true whole human sleep restored state before you invite anger back into your superstructure of health called your physical posture.  That would be good.