| An Expression, A Cup and the Whole Enchilada | 3 comments |
   10 Apr 2008 @ 15:53[excerpted from DoingIt!, June, 2006] “I Can’t Stand It!” Joan uses this saying sometimes when she is so excited about something that she is about to burst. In receiving a great present or treat. Being in France. Being amidst flowers and beautiful smells and beauty in general. I see her rock and shake until she can’t contain the joy of a kid at Christmas… bottled and aged to perfection… and then, pop!, a giggling, “I can’t stannnd it!!” This buzz is like medicine to me. The non-bitter kind which we have dedicated ourselves to releasing into the world in any and all ways that might reduce or counter the amount of spirit and soul-killing toxins ready to latch onto any one of us in a given moment. The spoonful of sugar that hopes to help the reality go down. I get excited about things as well, but it is only when wound and keyed-up to that next level of exhilaration… that I realize how much broader my joy quotient could be stretched; how much stronger my own medicine could be. Thankfully, the stars have aligned, and one of these special, thrill-inducing occasions (a month-long injection of rocket fuel for my soul) is before me now, as I am once again being enlivened by the World Cup! More > |
| With Liberty and no "Just Us": Oodles of Opportunity in a 50-50 World | 0 comments |
 7 Apr 2008 @ 23:12[excerpted from DoingIt!, April, 2005] It seems much of the world has brought itself to a state of either-or. Blue/liberal/democrat state or red/conservative/republican . My “one” religion or your blasphemous, misguided, imposter religion. Sadly, much possibility, variety, imagination, toleration has gone out the window for an us vs. them (U.S. vs. them), dug-in, black and white mentality. And we’re just the ones to clear it up. In this I see an immense opportunity. whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible." --George Santayana "Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Where the world we all knew innately as children-- fueled by (questionably authentic) parental urgings to “play nice with others”-- was full of unlimited potential, novelty and worth based on all of the diverse people, creatures and opportunities “God” put on Earth in all “His” Glory, Omniscience and Bounty… … somehow some of us have come to believe that: More > |