…how do we get into this? And to be immediately clear, “this” refers to telling your life story. About four months ago I had an errand to run in Boston and I took that as an opportunity to turn the day into one of my walk-about days. I could have driven in and fought traffic … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
