Verbs

The early morning sky is grey, grey, grey.  Temperature is at 66 degrees fahrenheit and it is supposed to go to the low 70's at the coast.  Inland it will be 80 degrees - such a difference in a matter of miles.  Today is Wednesday.

The inspiration for this essay came last night during a healing circle when a passage came.  It wa about nouns and verbs.  In essence the thought shared was that we humans create a lot of nouns.  We make things come into space by naming stuff.  The point is, that life is not in a noun.  Life is in verbs - not in pronounes or adjectives, either.  

The living of a full life requires actions, not just thought.  It can be exhausting over a lifetime, so even more important that one build a personal practice to preserve all the energy that will be put out into the universe.  The way to keep things going requires both practical steps and a capacity to dream and imagine things that are not yet here.  This seems to be what a lot of inventors did, giving humanity all sorts of ways to sustain life.  And today, we have people writing about wacking the side of the head, and turning things upside down, and opening the mind with mushrooms, and more.

This seems to be a time in which everyone is coming into acceptance that a lot of things have to shift and no one knows exactly how, so there is a willingness to enter into new realms.  Perhaps realms that were once taboo or too far beyond the world that we created.  

But the world created by us has met its match in nature.  Our own ability to recognize this is starting to become more clear - when human beings begin to see how powerful water flowing, land shifting, and winds blowing can be - its a wake up call.  The forgotten wisdom of those who really know what it means to live with the planet, not just on it - is re-emerging.  

Thankfully, there are those who are excavating our collective psychology, inviting folks to re-imagine the narratives that have been part of one's life.  It is an opportunity to create an alternative history, that could lead to alternative futures while living in the present with an entirely new lens because of the invitation to re-imagine.

We dont' want to re-imagine structures.  We want to re-imagine life - the actions we will take as we respond to the many different ways in which human lives are being challenged in this moment.  There will be a chance for every person to consider their lives - what are we choosing to engage in as we move forward.  And how will our "being" translate into the doing each day?  This is a time to absorb the messages that our creatives are sending, even as things are literally falling apart and bringing destruction.  These people actually can find beauty in all of it - and we are sorely in need of beauty about now.