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        1. …in reply to @hilaryagro
          @hilaryagro We all have to shift our energy between looking horrors in the eye so we can know their depth and alert others, and cultivating creative community and activity either as response to or sanctuary from what is wrong.
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        @hilaryagro Ben Kunkel hypothesizing that sensitivity to what is damaging heightens sensitivity to what is rewarding: "Currently the party line I give myself, and do in part believe, is that what's happiest is just to be alive and sensitive when it comes to feeling the world…
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      @hilaryagro and if what your senses honed beyond usefulness, end up registering is so much suffering out there that you become light-headed with it at times--well those senses can still be used for extracting pleasures from fruits, nuts…
  1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
    @hilaryagro "…beverages of all kinds, words on a page, a loved mammal in your arms, music (including sad kinds), and anyway this is only the tip of a list anyone could assemble."
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      @hilaryagro Incidentally, the novel which is the source of this quote, _Indecision,_ enmeshes the narrator with a radical anthropologist, ethical crises, and drugs.