It’s rather good to learn with friends. It’s one of the most basic narratives of my life. Just learn. Just follow the joy of learning. Inner. Outer. With people. Solo. Connect things. Try things. Stop calling them things.
I just came from a call (Coffee over Zoom = Zoffee). With a wise man that I’ve know over 10-15 years. But in the frequency of a call once every 18 months or so — I think we’ve only been together twice in same physical space. There is a resonance between us. A similar desire for learning. For feeling. For listening.
Today my friend offered me this reflection and encouragement (diagram above). I scribbled while he talked, because that’s what I do.
“Learn to welcome the space between the letters. And between the words. And between the sentences. Learn to look for what isn’t and can’t be in the words, in the articulation.”
Dandy.
My friend also added, “I don’t try so much to facilitate these days. But I do try to catalyze.”
Yup, this feels wise. And so much of what I’m learning to lean to. And to surrender to. In life. In family. In hosting work. As I wrote above, “holding space to help people be ready (more ready) for that catalyzing.”
It’s rather good to learn the spaces between, to become trusting and fluent with the spaces between. It’s rather good to learn with friends.
