I offer these few lines as context for this writer’s entries: Through writing I endeavor a fidelity of creative expression that is mine alone. Although longing to write for years, doing so is a new undertaking. As with other works of importance, I allow my writing, and the work of it, to serve as my teacher. I enter my muse’s currents for my own ends: Specifically, to move at the Mystery’s behest as Wisdom’s consort. In doing so, fulfill my life’s intent: to participate in the expansion of the whole through my unique movement and expression.
Remember, I am doing this for my own purposes. I point out that Mother Teresa, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and others of their stature, did what they did for themselves: They longed to live out the integrity of their own sovereign existence in collaboration with others. As consequence, all of humanity was lifted and buoyed in their fidelity. An invitation for the rest of us to do similarly – Yes?
I promise to write in my own evolving voice with which I too am becoming acquainted. I promise to avoid political correctness, other’s thinking and labels. What myopia, foible or conceit that turns up will be my own; what illumination appears has its origins beyond this local self and flows through the instrument I am. Some posts will be long. I will post poetry: Some my own, some from others. If my word usage is unfamiliar, consult a dictionary. I promise to post every seven to ten days, and may do so more frequently.
Reading is no substitute for genuine movement, experience and expression. At its best writing may evoke your own motion, furthering your own path. This then is an added boon!
Take good care.
In writing this, my third post on Bert Hellinger’s seven-forms of anger, I am reminded that anger is a messy topic. I know of no one who is free from feeling and expressing their own, or experiencing another’s anger. No one wants to be regarded as an angry person, nor is it pleasant to be [...]
In my last post, Anger – 1, I wrote of a positive strengthening and enabling anger: In itself, it exists without emotion. It is an energetic force accessible to assist us. Generally, and unfortunately, this positive anger is mixed, contaminated, with forms of problematic anger: those which conscript our attention and emotion. Therefore, we rarely [...]
This post is the first in a series on anger: Anger that works and strengthens a person; and, that which renders one immobile. Anger seems pervasive. We are affected by it daily whether we ourselves are experiencing and expressing it, or in the presence of another’s expression. The prompt for this series occurred a few [...]
“We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are our marching orders.”~ Noam Chomsky We are living in a time when great care and patience are called for. Our understanding of our individual and collective circumstances are so wholly impoverished that we often hasten to act from fear and caprice when relaxation and [...]
In these times, we may be well served to look to poets for their mystical insight and prescient wisdom. Look for example to the American poet Walt Whitman: “Soon there will be no more priests, their time is done. Everyone will be his [or her] own priest.” This is the imperative of our time; this time, not tomorrow, [...]
Twenty years ago while stopped in traffic in Portland, Oregon’s downtown district, I looked to my left and watched an elderly homeless man stumble from the hold he had on his shopping cart of belongings: He fell to the ground. In an instant, a man jumped from his truck and assisted the old one to [...]
About fourteen years ago I was sitting in Bert Hellinger’s audience in San Francisco. At that time he had been coming to the States for a few months introducing his family constellations. These are methods for clearing ancestral and systemic impediments in a life. As a consequence of this work, one more easily accesses personal [...]
Maestro Bill Warren On September 29, 2011, General Aviation lost a stellar, yet, unspoken hero. So too did the communities who loved him. Though insufficiently acknowledged, Bill Warren was the chief diplomat, emissary and envoy of the Spirit of Flight. He was born in Port Angeles, Washington on October 13, 1946. His family’s farm was [...]