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Listen to the beat (welcome to 2020)
Welcome to 2020.
Even though it is just another cycle around our star, and nothing has really changed,
Transcendental
Beauty was seen by medieval scholars as one of the transcendentals of being,
How is your soul doing?
I was listening to my friend Johan Beukes speaking about taking care of your soul this weekend, I'd thought to share some of his thoughts here.
without a thread
"The new country is where you are called to go, and the only way to go there is naked and vulnerable" - Henri Nouwen
a million little choices
There are a couple of hundred people on this email list, and if a couple of hundred people start to do things differently, start to build stuff that matters, that make our country and our world a little bit better every day then that could be quite something.
Regula III
Here is a practice, a regula, that helps me get my body and mind connected and in the right state.
Do you know what the word company means?
The word company, which we use to describe businesses, comes from the Latin
That is near insanity...
Woke up with this line from the film After Earth pulsing in my mind:
very melodramatic
The stories my mind makes up is incredible in a terrible way, one little hook or one little comment and my mind races around in circles coming to the conclusion that all is worthless and we're just a day away from living on a trash heap.
Breaking the Law
Recently we went to a secluded beach to have a picnic, we brought a Cobb cooker along, it uses 6 coals to cook a meal.
a-rhythmic
Modern life, or post-modern life, is a-rhythmic. Not having a rhythm as our ancestors did, a