For some time now, I’ve been playing with news and opinion items, and using Facebook posts more than I’ve been creating my own work. I haven’t even bothered to add my own comments to what I post – only quoting some pithy bit and hoping that others might glean something from it. While a vector is a worthwhile thing, I’d rather the thought be the meme. It’s a laziness and sadness that has moved me into a pivot function. I’ve…
For a number of reasons, I haven’t posted anything about Jehovah’s Witnesses for a while. There have been some horrible events in the news, and all sorts of doctrinal and organizational changes, but I find myself more interested these days in some of the larger questions. I’ve been trying to write something about that, but nothing I wrote was satisfactory to me. It turns out that I needed a real question for my thoughts on this to spill out. In…
Sometimes the asking is enough. Sometimes the thoughts that resonate or erupt are more important than the answers. Try these – and let your spirit speak to you. In the last 24 hours, what was the simplest sense-pleasure you experienced? Fresh sheets? The smell of rain or fire? Snuggly slippers? A brisk walk? If you woke up with no self-memory, how old would you guess you were? What is one behavior/insight/skill that sets you apart from others and makes you…
The greyness is comforting, bittersweet, familiar. Is the awareness of the longing itself the meaning? Is there an object for the longing? Is the longing the subject? What is beyond the longing? Where is the between of the longing? “A Lonely Voice” – October Project I keep looking back A lifetime back Across the desert In a desert where no one can explain You tell me God is dancing in the rain I can hear the echo In a maze…
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our help.†~ Rainer Maria Rilke “Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.” ~ Viktor Frankl “Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to…
Livin’ on the edge of Zeee-eee-eeeee…. The B-52s, “Channel Z” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUOYFuMaATg[/youtube] I am livin’ on Channel Z! Gettin’ nothing but static (static) Gettin’ nothing but static (static) Static in my attic from Channel Z Getting nothing but static (static) Getting nothing but static (static) Static fills my attic from Channel Z I don’t know, I feel like something’s happening Something good is happening I feel love has got to come on, and I want it Something big and lovely And…