I’ve been thinking about how something so simple as “just show up, be yourself, and do what you can” so often becomes tantalizingly difficult and/or elusive. It gets me thinking about what gets in the way of “the natural,” what it’s all about and what can be done about it? First thoughts: well, let’s see…some … [Read more…]
I woke up three days ago remembering the end of a dream. I knew there were two dreams but only the last part of one of the dreams found traction in my early morning memory dream catcher. In the dream I am looking at a pile of papers stacked one atop another. There was a … [Read more…]
An Awareness Which Supports the Birth Process of an Individual: “Insofar as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists. Let it band together into groups and organizations as much as it likes – it is just this banding together and the resultant extinction of the … [Read more…]
No one wants to appear inadequate. If we do, it has the potential to raise the experience of shame, and shame in it’s intense expression is like torture for a social creature. We live in a world where we are deluged with images and sound-bytes which offer one opinion after another, all expertly expressed. Implied in … [Read more…]
“How you fix what’s past?” Breeze asked, incredulous. “You redeem the past,” Colton said, “by redemin’ the future.” — “I need the evil in me to do what’s good?” Breeze once asked Steve in confusion. “You can’t discount your devils,” Steve had said, “without throwing out your angels.” — Quoted with permission from Robert Gleason: … [Read more…]
