A cliché? Be Yourself! Heaven knows I’ve seen the phrase tossed about Tried to apply directive to myself and failed so many times…. She invited me to a Zoom conversation and I accepted…..knowing…..that if I’m going to grow, I need to keep jumping, and climbing.
Around about the year you were born, a group - Sly and the Family Stone - sang, "I wanna thank you falettinme be mice elf agin." No; really! A deliberate strategy to get folks to listen perhaps. And today, a few years later, your writings are helping me do just that. Not always comfortably but what is the down side?
Offering up a fragment (spark) from Sly and the Family Stone, while Bruce referenced a Rilke spark, is the beauty of the Born Free Newsletter. Far from claiming to make it so, I'm content to collect Sparks at every opportunity.
Love the reference to Rilke "The Swan" In one of the translations "gaily descends into the water and condescends to glide". I can't help but think, as contrarian, that being who you are is less about practice and more about letting go into the now. Does right now take practice? Isn't the way we came into the world fully innocent who we are... doesn't everything we've learned make us less like the swan? Does a swan know itself as a swan? Just is! What would condescending to glide feel and be like for we humans? You?
On another note, while I'm on a roll.. in Jewish mystical tradition the fragments as your describing are named "sparks". It is thought the role of humanity is to gather the sparks into "One".
Oh, and yes, it seems the poetry is just so perfectly you.
Around about the year you were born, a group - Sly and the Family Stone - sang, "I wanna thank you falettinme be mice elf agin." No; really! A deliberate strategy to get folks to listen perhaps. And today, a few years later, your writings are helping me do just that. Not always comfortably but what is the down side?
Offering up a fragment (spark) from Sly and the Family Stone, while Bruce referenced a Rilke spark, is the beauty of the Born Free Newsletter. Far from claiming to make it so, I'm content to collect Sparks at every opportunity.
Thanks Bruce, thanks Gail!!
Love the reference to Rilke "The Swan" In one of the translations "gaily descends into the water and condescends to glide". I can't help but think, as contrarian, that being who you are is less about practice and more about letting go into the now. Does right now take practice? Isn't the way we came into the world fully innocent who we are... doesn't everything we've learned make us less like the swan? Does a swan know itself as a swan? Just is! What would condescending to glide feel and be like for we humans? You?
On another note, while I'm on a roll.. in Jewish mystical tradition the fragments as your describing are named "sparks". It is thought the role of humanity is to gather the sparks into "One".
Oh, and yes, it seems the poetry is just so perfectly you.