Category: Thoughts on the Matter.

  • Recalcitrant.

    There are moments in life where the outer world, our own personal outer world, is far beyond coherent, open, and good. I do not know of any word that holds the place of this field – this thing I mean to discuss. In some ways that is unfortunate, but what is fortunate, is that You are able to understand what I mean. Some of you, at least…

    This world of ours – less ethereal now and more local – has been changing in ways that merit a good head scratching. Partly, that’s because it’s been in a transition phase…when exactly is a caterpillar no longer a caterpillar but a butterfly? At which moment does this happen? Not that our world is becoming a 🦋, although, I wish it were. And, I suppose further, maybe it is that this is the process needed for that to happen.

    A move back to something personal – my world, inner and outer, have been far removed from being in concert with one another. That is to say, I also feel that the nature of what I’m working on has been recalcintrant, stubborn, bullish, and unwilling to connect with me in ways that create resolve and progress. Grrrrr.

    Even my efforts to perform this simple task of composing a few words feels clunky and disembodied. Why am I writing then? Because I desire it. I wish to return to writing so as to thread my conscious mind into a structure that I might revisit later. I’ve heard that writing down your emotions resolves them in some way. Deep breath in. Hold. 2. 3. 4. Slow exhale. Ok. Let’s have another go at this whole thing….

    Sending you some of my very best good thoughts. [:

  • Railcars

    Held firm to the in-between, I rallied my thoughts to accept the process when normally I would not. Only as fast as the slowest moving part…right? Right.

    This slowing moving part doesn’t only remove me from accomplishing tasks effectively, it actually stops the entire process. It becomes the train car that refuses to couple, refuses to move, or refuses to carry resources where needed. Furthermore, it can absorb all the energy that was present in the system – and quickly.

    So, what is to be done about this act of defiance that is certainly unavoidable in the creators world? Breathing is good. It doesn’t make the buggered train car change intention, though. It does grant us some disconnect from bigness of the calamity. Start there. Next, move the mind into a state of understanding the complexity of static. Nothing has actually stopped moving. That is key. You’ve only encountered a part, a train car, that needs the energy.

    Tricky part is in the approach. How do we establish the encounter so that it does not fully diminish our flow? Ha [:, well, practiced responsibility of emotional self connection and preservation. The energy used to get that clunky train car going, and the initial energy that was driving the system, do not have to be from the same bank account. Or something like that.

    Anyhow, good luck out there your revealer creatives…