Liminal

I awoke this morning with the dancing golden light of the dreamspace still clear in my mind. 

~~~

Trust

Trust your instinct to the end, 

though you can render no reason. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

It isn't easy

expression / repression 

tightly-sprung suppression / heavy cutting beat

Antidote

It's not all bad news.

There's a simple, but potent, antidote: empathy.

And there's that word again: connection.

Hangover

What's better than my all time favourite TED talk?  

Finding out there's a sequel. And it's just as powerful as the first - or maybe more so, because it probes the uncomfortable reality of the 'vulnerability hangover' that followed its delivery. 

It goes to the heart of the paradox of vulnerability: that it's not weakness. That it's our most accurate measurement of courage. That it's the birth place of innovation, creativity, and change. 

And that we can't unlock any of that unless we examine its paralysing flipside: shame. 

All things

Sun Through Overcast Cirrocumulus Stratiformis Clouds

All things appear or disappear like the sound of an echo:

the clouds in the sky,

the moon on the water,

the lightning, the sea foam,

the trail of a bird as it flies,

or the visions of dreams after waking.

~ Master Taisen Deshimaru

This

This lumpen misshapen silence

This ample ponderous shame

This molten balloon of discomfort

This sharp-faced boiling pause

Is every day   week   month   

Is every voice-locked question

Is every suspended uncertainty

Of this shamefast frozen abeyance