"…There is a famous story told of a child who continually annoyed his father. In desperation the father took a map of the world, tore it into many pieces and told his son to put the puzzle pieces back together to make the map of the world.
Knowing the child had not learned what the [...]

This being human is a guest house

Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest [...]

Crop of The Spinner by Billy Houdek, painting of a woman who talks too much while in the act of retelling a story. Source
The Hectare Lesson I recall years ago reading a scene in a book that has stayed with me since. I was about 11 and I think it was in one of Roald Dahl’s bio-works e.g. [...]

I think this is the most perfect ending I’ve ever read for a sad story.
It’s by yiddish author, Sholom Aleichem, from the story ‘The Haunted Tailor’.
"…don’t force it, kids! the ending is not a good one. It started very happily, and turned out, like most happy stories, very sadly. And since you know [...]

Reflecting on a source story*:The Well of Wyrd^…
Please note - this post grew much longer than I expected and some of the details are for my learning that I want to also share…feel free to simply enjoy the story / share your thoughts on its meaning.

"…And then I learned my first source Story: The Well of Wyrd. [...]

I don’t read enough poetry. Or write enough. Somewhere I have a bit of an anthology loosely titled "of mirrors and mississipi rhyme". Poetry is at once, so big and so small…the dance between the edge and beyond…the visible and invisible. If the world we live in today is described by the thinkers and artists [...]

Been thinking about patterns and stories and…thought I would post these quotes to tag to some of the links / people that come up

"A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual [...]

Today and the last week’s AND has been a thinking about Caterpillar AND Butterfly.

Background: I have been playing with the word "AND" for almost a year now. It seems to be the nicest (re-)addition to my vocaluarly, where possible replacing But. For example, what if we centralized AND decentralized the banking sector? That is great [...]

please be aware this may not make sense yet - as I am still making sense of my day and lessons, but I wanted to post what was emerging…
Today has been a VERY long day. And I haven’t been awake for more than 11hours yet!
It should, by all accounts, be a bad day. It very [...]

Overview Below please find a musing on the gift of silence, and a lesson learnt through conversation, and some tools and resources. Or perhaps, simply take this as an invitation to enjoy a moment of silence and enjoy that?
 
 
 
 
 
 
I (and other readers) would be interested in hearing your own experiences with silence, and anything - stories, tools, [...]