Grave danger in candidates
We are in grave danger of having two candidates at impossibly opposite ends of the political spectrum. The danger is that people may feel they have no choice but civil war.
:- Doug.
Archive for March 22nd, 2016
off my plotted course
Can I allow disturbances in life to take me off my plotted course and into creativity and novelty? How many times have I noticed that mistakes gave me better ways to do and be!
:- Doug.
the usual thing vs the best thing
Tugged we each are between doing the usual thing—say earning a living—and doing your best thing. More sharply: doing your calling which means relying on others (family, tribe, nation?) to pick up your slack when you fail and being the one to pick up others when they fail. This is the prodigal father again, yes? The stay at the grindstone brother angry that he has to support the one who set out in the world and fell flat on his face: faced by the progenitor who loved them both with his all.
:- Doug.
troubled waters
Perturbation → disorder and order → emergence → life stretches for novelty → Do I allow the waters of my life to be troubled?
:- Doug.
That voice
There is that voice which says you have something special to bring to the world. But even in our individualist times there sounds the overpowering hum beneath all sound. Do not be odd, do not pull away, this is the way we go, if you go some other you will be in the wilderness, alone, alone: you will die! So we don’t quit our job. Then that voice. The anguish.
The anguish of the human. Here is life, in the wrestling of these two.
Unacknowledged. But were we to hear and hold the battling too! Might we, scathed, be?
:- Doug.
