What’s Your Detail? An Invitation

It’s a moment of waiting for this BC Ferry. At Courtenay, on the way to Powell River. Hard not to get excited about such a moon rise over mountain and ocean.

I’m so grateful for a group of men gathered at Soultime. We tell stories. We sing songs. We cook food. We do deep work of the psyche and soul. We bring it back with us on the ferry to our families, to our work, and to our communities. I’ve been involved for over 15 years.

The most basic yet impactful of patterns at Soultime is reflection alone and together to the question — what is your detail? A “detail” is a noticing. Something that stands out to you. From the external story. From the internal story. From the external stimuli. From the inner wonder. There’s no wrong answer to such a question. There’s lots of gift in the permission to notice without needing to summarize. There’s a lot of gift in welcoming Life’s bigger patterns to organize our insights.

And then, a pivot to meaning and purpose. What does, or might, your noticing of that detail have to do with the life your are unfolding? Or wishing to unfold? Or struggling with?

It’s simple pattern. Repeated. That offers such rich insight. That lifts aliveness. That shares it. This time, among a Circle of Soultime Men.

Grateful.

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