Waters of waters
Robin Wall Kimmerer writes of reciprocity, I of conversation. Waters of waters.
:- Doug.
Archive for August 6th, 2022
Footprints in the Windsm # 2158–For a spell for a spell
Footprints in the Windsm # 2158
Trees and grasses. Sunshine and earth. Some water. Someone hands you a slip of paper. It says you alone can be here. For a spell. For a spell. Together you imagine a house. A home. A garden. You enlist help. A house and garden appear. Home comes into focus, continually changing across years. Friends come and go. You join workplaces, groups, perhaps churches, political conversations. By you joining, they change. You change. Your world changes. You see it differently. New people come. With richer pictures of their world. Someday you realize everyone lives in a different world. A world each makes. A world seen through filters each holds up. Even husbands and wives live in different homes, see different trees and grasses, sunshine and earth. Some water. For a spell. For a spell. It is good.
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Buber’s lessons
What Buber offers as gifts, as Kierkegaard offers, are not free. We have to turn. We have to go out to meet the face. The face of Buber’s Gott, the face of our daily friends and antagonists. We have to go again and again to the narrow ridge between I-It and I-Thou. Are you willing to turn and go back there with me? Buber asks. I ask. Let’s look again at the path to that narrow ridge:
Page 3: “PRIMARY WORDS DO NOT SIGNIFY THINGS, but they intimate relations.
“Primary words do not describe something that might exist independently of them, but being spoken they bring about existence.
“Primary words are spoken from the being.”
Page 75: “THE EXTENDED LINES of RELATIONS meet in the eternal Thou.”
Pages 123-4: “its central significance—namely, the close connexion of the relation to God with the relation to one’s fellow-man.”
:- Doug.
