Human to Human

Flow, it’s a creek in our neighborhood. Through a few houses. Between a few ponds. The sound is… comforting.

Flow, it’s a way of conceiving life. That is to say, an orientation that is a practice. I find myself continuing to both ask and assert, “not only to we live Life, but also, Life lives us.”

Flow, it’s a surrender. To something inspiring. To something life-giving.

Flow, it’s mantra, from which, many good things happen.

What a great line. It’s Martin Prechtel, American author and teacher of many things spiritual and indigenous. I got it from Lisa Hess‘ sharing (thx Lisa for your thoughtful ways).

Here’s the full quote:

“Grief and Praise are renters whose landlord is Love…Grief is a worker on life’s big highways, and Praise is Grief’s eternal freight train, forever hauling the vision of life’s bigger picture from stars whose light hasn’t got here yet, which Grief uses to refill the potholes of our losses.” (Martin Prechtel, Smell of Rain on Dust).

Oh how it matters to have relationship with grief, with praise, and with love. Notice, it’s rarely something all worked out, never to be revisited. Rather, it’s something that we tend to, that we give regular seat for at the table of our conscious evolutions.

I’m glad for many people in my life that have steered me in these directions (sometimes when I’ve been kicking and screaming), in such a way that each of these are companions. Not enemies. No foes (though sometimes it feels this way). Companions, caring ones at that.

And on we go. Life’s stream. Life’s bigger picture.

Check the passage from Maria Popova. I got it from a deck of cards, “100 Divinations for Uncertain Days — An Almanac of Birds” (thx Saoirse).

“I have found
that the surest way
of seeing the wondrous
in something ordinary,
something previously unappreciated,
is coming to love someone
who loves it.

As we enter
each other’s worlds in love —
whatever its shape or species —
we double our way of seeing,
broaden our way of being,
magnify our sense of wonder,

and wonder
is our best means
of loving the world more deeply.”

Nice, right.

That can guide a thing or two.

In some prep today for Part 2 of a Circle Workshop, Learn (To Be) Circle Here. That means a few extra insights are coming this morning. I like feeling the “overnight news” part of design. I like feeling the stuff under the stuff.

Today…

“When we commit ourselves to Circle, Circle commits to us.” We become a bit more gifted to feel the whole, to orient to a center, to tend to / tune to the well-being of the group. We reclaim honesty and authenticity as ways of being and operating. There’s a restoring of group IQ, learning together that is different than what we do alone. There is a lifting of relationality, which brings us to the deeper waters of belonging together and of adding cooperative contribution together.

Hmmm…

I love mornings of insight and learning. I love inviting others to my openings and to the openings that show for them.

On we go.