Boredom’s root
Boredom arises from many things but at its root is we are not engaging our creativity.
:- Doug.
Archive for October 22nd, 2014
Are nursing homes boring?
Are nursing homes boring? Do they cause people to be bored? Are they arranged for boredom? Do some people who refuse to be bored get labeled as “acting out,” “non compliant,” and get medicated for it? Is this boring arrangement conscious, or simply a failure of our imagination?
:- Doug.
A sun and a prevailing wind
Conversing’s a sun and a prevailing wind curving thinking into a trajectory to serve humanity.
:- Doug.
The modern form of shunning
How might we restore life to those in the nursing home? Do we see folks in nursing homes as dead men and women walking?
We need to assign blame in this to ourselves, and not to society in general: what do we do every day to counter this picture?
Do we speak of “senior moments” as code for memory lapses—or for playing with grandkids? Do we avoid visiting people in assisted living facilities—the modern form of shunning? Do we say “ouch” when someone says something negative about people who have a few years on us, but who are living? Do we find ways to foster their creativity?
:- Doug.
“They have to fit!”
I was wondering the other night about how Bohm’s concentration on thought, and mine on conversation complement each other, fit together. Of course, that is thought at work: saying they have to fit!
:- Doug.
Change red barns back to green
Bohm says thought does something and then says I did not do it. Long ago we recorded messages in our brains, messages which tell us barns are red, and then we treat “barns must be red” as a fact, and don’t see what is really there. We don’t even see we can change red barns back to green. Or into something else entirely, like an invitation.
:- Doug.
I will go in slow motion today
I am a little impatient with myself, but I had determined to go in slow motion today. Besides, Bohm and Edwards keep saying part of the response to thought is to slow down thinking, to catch it in the act.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1462–Take off your shoes among us
Footprints in the Windsm # 1462
Among us something emerges
Take off your shoes
This is holy ground
Please pass it on.
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I had the ouchies backwards
I used to say we spend 98.5% of our time thinking in the future. Now I think I had it backwards. What we learned and experienced years ago recorded tapes and disks we replay now. Often unconsciously. But if now is our home, our only possible home, does now not deserve 98.5% of our efforts, not its mere 1%? Fire is an “ouchie,” but it can be useful now that we are adult. What “ouchies” did you replay today?
:- Doug.
