Human to Human

One, really good people showing up. I love the willingness to commit to simple process, expecting depth. B&B is a series of monthly online offerings (with a bit of scheming and dreaming now for in-person retreat).

Two, I love the sparring that some are offering. Chris Jepson is one (thx Chris). And I love the companioning. And the good questions. Yesterday Chris asked me about the series (from his perspective of his participating) — what’s your why (your deeper why, your compelling can’t not why)?

• To cultivate, support, and remember kindness, consciousness, flow.
• To create infrastructure for human consciousness (borrowing that one from Sadghuru).
• To evolve how I, and we, think and be, to restore more of the intuitive and associative ways (needed generally, and, lights me and others up).

You know how you sometimes have to do a thing to know what the thing is, to let it teach you. B&B is this. Becoming & Belonging.

Jump in. I intend these offerings to contribute to all of the why above. And to grow delightful camaraderie. They are meant to be a buffet of choices. New tastes. Familiar ones two. They are meant to nourish. Our beings. Our bellies. To change how we go about all of the other stuff in life.

There is forever a part of me that seeks for, and appreciates, the simple. To shape life. To shape me. To shape us. To shape learning. To shape orientation. To shape next step.

Dana and I drove to Maple Grove Hot Springs on Saturday. To check it out as a possible venue for hosting groups. There are accommodations for groups up to about 30 in size. With really attractive yurts for sleeping and for meeting. Right on the Bear River which means canoe, kayaks. And, featuring natural hot springs and baths, six of them. Which means good body-attending soaks. And then forest. Paths to walk.

There is a forever part of me that looks for words to describe the simple.

Perhaps more accurately, my relationship with the simple, with the clear, with the Zen of it. I often write these words, drafted or completed in my journal. To remind me. To live into what is simple, yet clear.

Here’s what I wrote recently. For inspiration. And perhaps invitation to appreciate the journey in simple ways of seeing, being, doing.

asd

I am here.
This much I know.

My breath belongs here.
This much I feel.

My heart beats here.
This much I love.

I am here.
With others being here.

And then this, similarly.

asdf

Oh, what journey.
This following the river.
This climbing the hills.
This resting beneath tree.

Oh, what journey.
To meet companions.
To remember together.
To open to the heart of it all.

Meg’s voice has long been an important one. For me. For many. I love the friendship and kinship that Meg and I share.

I was pretty moved to have Meg write the forward to my book, Gifts of Circle. Yes, please, get the book and Question Cards. Or just peek and enjoy Meg’s Forward.

The Warmth of Circle — Margaret Wheatley Excerpt

We don’t know exactly when our early hominid ancestors began using fire for cooking, toolmaking, and warming. But it was at least one million years ago. A few archaeologists expect to discover evidence dating the first use of fire back to 2 million years. Whenever hominids began using fire intentionally, we know they sat in Circle. There was no other way for everyone to be warm.

And so it is today. If we want people to feel warmly welcomed, let us return to Circle. Let us rely on Circle as the form that invites contribution from everyone, that evokes individual and collective wisdom, that creates the conditions for us to resolve our afflictions and create new possibilities. Let us rely on Circle to awaken our innate human qualities of generosity, creativity, and kindness.

The Book,
Gifts of Circle:
Connection, Courage, Compassionate Action.

The Cards,
Questions Cards
34 of them.

Get them here.
To grow what is simple and present.
To be grown by what is simple and present.