Three perfect gems
It is amazing sometimes that the RSS aggregator seems to collect a pattern that is fleeting and yet solidly present in the diverse world of the blogs I read. And so today, I am delighted to find these three posts, all of which seem to be saying something bigger:
- Alex Kjerulf writing on love and leadership
- AKMA in a meditation on the gift of endings and continuings prompted by Lemony Snickett and JK Rowling’s last novels.
- Christy Lee Engle on “the unwanted passion of your sure defeat,” and other thoughts inspired by David Whyte.
There is a tenderness in all three of these posts, finding the soft underbelly of what might otherwise be a hardened and closed experience. Something ineffable like that, and all three touched me quite deeply on this late autumn day, when the snow is melting around me and the rain and fog move through in small moments.
good morning dear Chris,
It is an honor to be one of the bits of flotsam that you’ve plucked out of your wide-cast net to hold up to the light for a moment. I also catch Alex’ wonderful blog in my own net, and I love his take in this post on love as “a total committment to helping others realize their full potential” as a way of doing business. And I’m glad to be pointed towards AKMA’s blog and his post about endings and forces outside of our control, and the way he leavens darkness with “love, and trust, and wisdom, and determination in the face of entropy, a few knick-knacks of joy and ingenuity, a song and a poem and a dance.”
I’m particularly interested in the way that you perceive pattern; it sounds like maybe the perception of this particular pattern was a felt-sense (more than a sound-sense or a meaning-sense or a topic-sense)? That your feeling response — including the feel of the light & the weather of the season — is itself the linkage, the lattice that creates relationship. Do you think that’s close, or part of it?
soft grey day here today,
love, Christy
Thank you my friend – I’m glad you liked it :o)
I already know that’s how YOU work!