Humanyms

In-Between Times

Saying hello or goodbye?

Still thinking about the dumbing down that comes from the 5-paragraph essay, the guideline for orderliness and logic that can shut out some explorations and conclusions. It’s kind of like going thru a stack of resumes and throwing out those that didn’t use the requested font or margins. It makes the process of getting an end-product simpler but doesn’t make for better results.

What doesn’t fit a poem, a post, a photo, a conversation can be the important elements that get deflected out by format.

It’s easy to get buried up to your lampshade in details of procedure that are meant to aid not bury and prevent.

Like a compliment or air-clearing you do, have but it’s never a good time and place as if that could be an excuse to prevent one from doing something worthwhile.

The default mode of anything is superficial, unless you choose to make it otherwise. Getting into the key nubs, the underlying crux, that takes hard work and insight and risk of failure.

Sometimes you have to throw off what’s done or sensible to see and see the monks in the snow.

There have been many heartening phrases over the last few days, one being Ruth Ann greeting the audience with “ladies, gentlemen and everyone in between”. A little concrete under the feet under the snow and the slip into between things without that being a threat.

Acknowledging ideas which aren’t a tidy purpose and category but is the majority seems a route to not feeling battered on all sides by automaton autopilot sloganeering of what is good and bad and other false dichotomies.

Quote: “In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.” ~ Thích Nhat Hanh