Meeting is where all the significant work gets done.
Meeting is where all the significant work gets done.
:- Doug.
Archive for September 7th, 2009
What you mean when you say something is the “soft” stuff is precisely that it is difficult to do, impossible to get an easy…
What you mean when you say something is the “soft” stuff is precisely that it is difficult to do, impossible to get an easy handle for. You cannot manage it because it is not an “It:” this very event happens outside the world of use and control. So you nervously assign it an pejorative label, when you are the one who feels inadequate.
:- Doug.
What of emergence? Emergence is simply the work of meeting. We meet. You give up something (shields and holding back, mainly)….
What of emergence? Emergence is simply the work of meeting. We meet. You give up something (shields and holding back, mainly) of yourself, I something of me. We each are enlivened by meeting: that is, we are each changed and there arises something which is beyond us: a being if you will between, and this seems magic. It was inchoate in each of us, as if we had meeting tentacles with pods on the ends, and they became whole only when connected with another person’s pods. So it is something we almost bring to the meeting. It is something we find, create, face in meeting: it is a third entity between. So it is something which carries us out on the wings of that relating. There is something there, something going on. It is not so much noun as verb, not so much thing as movement.
:- Doug.
Life is expensive: in the end it demands all we’ve got.
Life is expensive: in the end it demands all we’ve got.
:- Doug.
