POET — COACH — GROUP PROCESS FACILITATOR
I don’t know what these flowers are called. I’m just called to them, a few days ago on a morning walk, particularly with backgdrop of blue sky.
Beauty remains a medium for me. It’s what I go to, somewhat knowingly, to ground myself when complexity feels intense.
There’s no grand lesson in it for me. Just the feeling of a moment in beauty, sometimes just two breaths worth, that requires nothing other than the moment.
I’m in a week of just photos.
It’s a bit tricky to see in this photo, as close up as my phone could get to the morning grass, but I love the drops of water, two on the left and one on the right, that were perhaps the size of the tip of my pinky finger.
There’s a coherence to the water drop forming. And attraction.
As one who loves to associate physical experience, the outer world of observation, with inner world of feeling, these three drops of dew simply have me marveling for a moment about beauty, cohesion, and where I seek this in both my inner and outer worlds.
I love the simplicity.
It was a friend that shared appreciation for the description of an upcoming gathering that I’m co-hosting with Kinde Nebeker. The gathering is May 11, 2018. It’s at Snowbird, Utah. It’s the fourth offering that Kinde and I have created — each under the header of “Evolutionary Leadership.” Kinde and I continue to learn and explore what evolutionary leadership means. We continue to find it helpful — and thus follow our intuitions with it. We continue to learn and explore what it is as a focus for being with others who are hungry.
May 11th will be a small, intimate group. We will be up in Utah’s mountains. We will be in a spacious home, turning to one another from comfortable couches and cups of tea. Maybe a fire burning in the corner.
My friend’s appreciation included the word below. I think of each of these statements as a hunger. I know the hungers in me. I know them in others. I utterly value convenings that expand me, and expand us, around such things. With hopes of doing good with those around us. And often, with a “less is more” kind of feel.
• for those willing to embody matured courage and presence to support real change
• for those hungry to wade further upstream to release us from the torrent of habits, individual and collective, that offer at best convenience and illusion of accomplishment
• for those who realize that the primary practice is consciousness, in which is embedded leadership in organizational system, not the other way around.
From a walk yesterday at South Whidbey Island State Park, north and west of Seattle.
On a Sunny day, mostly. Which at this time of year in South Whidbey means a bit of rain also.
The soft of that moss is massively welcoming. I love the multi-hued greens, vibrant, and now awakened by spring. Life growing irrepressibly.
I suppose,
as I welcome this symbol to guide me,
that I seek in life,
the soft,
the welcoming,
the multi-hued,
the vibrant,
and an inner awakening,
a natural and
irrepressible growing.
The inner is always connected to the outer, isn’t it.
And in anything, is the everything.
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Gifts of Circle is 30 short essays divided into 4 sections: 1) Circle's Bigger Purpose, 2) Circle's Practice, 3) Circle's First Requirements, and 4) Circle's Possibility for Men. From the Introduction: "Circle is what I turn to in the most comprehensive stories I know -- the stories of human beings trying to be kind and aware together, trying to make a difference in varied causes for which we need to go well together. Circle is also what I turn to in the most immediate needs that live right in front of me and in front of most of us -- sharing dreams and difficulties, exploring conflicts and coherences. Circle is what I turn to. Circle is what turns us to each other."
Question Cards is an accompanying tool to Gifts of Circle. Each card (34) offers a quote from the corresponding chapter in the book, followed by sample questions to grow your Circle hosting skills and to create connection, courage, and compassionate action among groups you host in Circle.
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In My Nature is a collection of 10 poems. From A Note of Beginning: "This collection of poems arises from the many conversations I've been having about nature. Nature as guide. Nature as wild. Nature as organized. I remain a human being that so appreciates a curious nature in people. That so appreciates questions that pick fruit from inner being, that gather insights and intuitions to a basket, and then brings the to table to be enjoyed and shared over the next week."
This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes) quotes a few favorite passages from poems in In My Nature. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.
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Most Mornings is a collection of 37 poems. I loved writing them. From the introduction: "This collection of poems comes from some of my sense-making that so often happens in the morning, nurtured by overnight sleep. The poems sample practices. They sample learnings. They sample insights and discoveries. They sample dilemmas and concerns."
This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes) quotes a few favorite passages from poems in Most Mornings. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.
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