Exceptional Excerpts: LOST and FOUND

In the video below, it would seem that the music was written to accompany the animation, or vice versa. Actually, they were created years apart by different people for different reasons; and somehow, the two creations found each other. What this short film says to me is, All of us are both lost and found at the same time, all the time. The surprise comes when we realize just how much. So, I offer this as an encouragement to insist upon your lostness and to insist upon your foundness.

Due to the vagueries and caprices of youtube, this video, itself, has often been lost and then found again. If it is not available at the time you are reading this post, please check back again. In the meantime, the writing below from "Brother Void" (Andrew Boyd) is offered as a tonic during times of adversity.

Excerpted from The Book of Daily Afflictions by Andrew Boyd:

Finding Sorrow

Let my hidden weeping arise and blossom – RAINER MARIA RILKE

When you get depressed, it's comforting to remember that deep inside you is a well of pain. This pain can help you. It's a reservoir of self-knowledge and nourishment. When you welcome this pain, it can carry you out of depression and into sorrow.

When depressed, you are merely numb and listless. But in sorrow, you feel the fine-grained texture of loss. Whereas depression diminishes your world, sorrow teaches you the true value of the things you mourn. Sorrow is the other side of joy– a dark, moist cradle of grief that slowly nourishes you, a solemn vigil that honors what you love. So the next time you are ensnared in darkness, cut through the gray armor of depression straight to the dark heart of sorrow.

Lost in depression, I am found in sorrow.