"Who Am I Alreay Now That I Can Be?"

- question thanks to Diederick Janse, at The Hub Amsterdam ’s Collaboration Day - thanks for a great conversation all!)

Can Image: Campbell’s Soup 1968 (c) Andy Warhol
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The Point
of Life
is Life
- Goethe
“Don’t search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live [...]

"…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 [...]

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs;

Ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive"

- Howard Thurman*
 
*A little note: apparently this quote is often attributed to the fictitious, well according to wikipedia, Harold Thurman Whitman. Whoever wrote it, it works!
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Image: Echo (c) Steve Solinsky

"Life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we travel free and unhampered,

but a maze of passages,
through which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again,

But always, if we have faith,
a door will open for us,

not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove [...]

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 [...]

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. It it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
Elwyn Brooks White, 1899-1985 American Essayist and Author
I [...]

When was the last time you received a postcard in the mail?
Today I had the pleasure and joy of receiving a postcard with personal message from Emma.

The postcard followed a conversation with Emma, Rebecca and others about storytelling, and also, the various ways to bring people of all ages, including the 20-40year old set, to a Storytelling Festival in NY [...]

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, [...]