Category: General Learning

The outer vista is rather compelling. This picture from a few days ago. Near Hurricane, Utah. The reach of the red rock formations, The beauty of the blue sky expanse. And the 2-3 layers (20-30) that live between. It does something to the body, to the heart, and to the imagination.

And.

It is the inner vista that has always been equally compelling to me. There are reaches and expanses within us. There are always layers to explore. Things to know. Things to feel. Things that arise. I have pretty firm belief that the psyche perpetually moves to higher order when we are the tiniest bit willing (and like my friend Meg taught me years ago with organizations, “uses messes to get there”).

Where inner meets outer, yes, this is the interesting landscape to me. When attention to outer inspires insight on the inner, yes, this is the beauty. When attention to inner awakens intuition in the outer, yes, this is the good work of human living.

As before, we explore these things in Becoming & Belonging. We find our way to the simple. We find our way to what inspires. Try a session — these are small groups. You might find the landscape compelling.

I love this line from Toke. It’s a recent Zoom together. Toke does what Toke does, which so often names the deep layered purpose and practice. Flow Game is about “awakening practitioners of being awake.”

I’ve been enjoying several recent Flow Games moments. Yeah.
– the middle photo above was a playful end to a call. “Let’s draw a card for the road.”
– the first photo was an in-person men’s group, exploring questions of, well, being men. Three hours. A couple of cards drawn each. Good to be face to face.
– the photo on the right was today’s Becoming & Belonging Series. Such a rock star group, able to go to and support the deep learning.

And on we go. What delight to keep such company in such process.

This rose, well it’s just in, blooming near our front porch. I love the morning sunlight waking it to a day.

This just in, also, in conversation, some life-moving insight.

• “For many of us, our work is to awaken the practitioners. The practitioners of being awake.”
• “And then to help steward the practitioners, which is to say, help contribute kindly to a field of awakeness. “
• “And then to practice. It all loop on itself. Our work is to show up in our practice.”

Thx Toke. Yes, it is true that we humans can fall in love with being unconscious. And, that we humans can fall in love with being present and awake to life waking us.

Red is the rose.

I love the look of this Garden Mum, a Chrysanthemum, a Florist’s Daisy. It now lives in the corner of our back yard. I love the abundance of the yellow against backdrop of grey fencing. A splash of life. And, in this case, placed on some stacked stones, repurposed from a patio of old. Fresh wood chips too, they bring some life.

A friend reminded me yesterday, at the close of a call, that “it’s all practice.” Indeed. Beauty is practice. Attention is practice. Creativity is practice. Repurposing is practice. Caring for is practice. I like the outcome.

And, under all of that — just joy. I like the way it looks and feels. That’s what creating a little beauty does.