FORCE(fullness)
THE SENSE OF PUSH. AND PULL. AND PLAY Sometimes, in the strength of the passionate moment, there's a need for force. FORCE ACTIVATES. And force could captivate. Enchantment: As the energy passes through, by your presence, the notation of momentum pushes the layering of that moment, the movement of the instant, and you have to push. Or be pulled, or be cast in the (e)motion of transition. In the hard light, that move is a passing -- the force will keep going, and going, and going. And where...
LIGHTNING STRIKE
THE BRIGHT IDEA IS IT THAT THE GREAT IDEA IS A LIGHTNING STRIKE OR A BUILDING STORM? I was contemplating -- the sequence of brilliant ideas -- how they emerge, the sparking of them. Is it the storm that slowing builds an electrical charge, or could it be the sudden strike of a bolt from the blue. Perhaps both. As I meditate on ideation, I'm seeing that the idea(l) of the sparkling of ideas might come from unconscious circling of challenges, the mind and memory working on the character of a...
MAKING YOUR WAY
Photo by Tim Girvin ARE YOU? I WONDER if I am. Making my way? Do I truly make, my way? As I'm heading into the mists of the mountains, a great passage is emerging. That might be the actual mountain pass -- it's coming; but then it might be the passing from the wetter clime of the western ridges of the Cascades -- mist to light; to the drier sun casting of the eastern slopes, now that Dawn is coming. Then again, it might be that this ascent, this way that I am going, I'm getting to something...
THE RED DOOR
SIGNALING THE POINT OF ENTRY In Sweden, there is a distinct red that is used in farmhouse buildings. It took a taxi driver, coming in from the country, driving me to Stockholm, to figure it out. What is that red? In fact, most of the farms use the same color, a nearly mythological mineral red, legendarily being derived from the copper mine at Falun, in Dalarna, Sweden. This color is six hundred years old -- originally designed as a palette that would match the reddish hue of bricks. It fell...
THE MEASUREMENT OF FLOW
Photo by Tim Girvin HOW FLOW WORKS Earlier, I corresponded with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the scholar and author of "Flow." His studies of the concept of flow and the optimal experience are legendarily groundbreaking. I found the idea of the perfected state, the flow state, to be mesmerizing. Surely, each of us in our own way has known this place. Defined: "people are most happy when they are in a state of flow— a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the...
MAINTAINING
Photo by Tim Girvin SOMETIMES, IT'S BETTER LEFT UNDONE WALKING OUT THE OLD WAY, BACK BEHIND THE SHEDS AND BY WAYS OF THE MODERN I saw this old door, and was reminded that perhaps it's better to leave things be, let them show their age, turning down -- turning back, peeling in time. As I looked at the bright and shiny doors, the polished wood working, I think that it might be going two ways. One, the presumption of the shine might be to the future, the protection against the aged. Then, the...
SPEAK, MEMORY
Photo by Tim Girvin THE INFORMATION OF EXPERTISE, THE FORMATION IN -- EXPERIENCE As I reach back, deep, into the heart of what drives me, (and you, and anyone) I'm referencing -- carrying, referring, holding messages and imprints from the past. But that re-collecting, it's really about "forming." When I capture the idea of memory, it is about the meaning -- the mean of mind. Information -- being, in form, molding, grasping, holding -- and forming. That forming creates that form, which is the...
THE DREAMER AND THE WHOLE
Photo by Tim Girvin WANDERING IN THE DREAM could be dream for you There is invention, liberty, the floating ideal -- the wandering that frees the mind and the physical, to drifting in the mist of mind and memory to new composites of experience. Learning, there. What happens in the dream, happens in the living -- there is one: the imagining. And there is two, the fulfillment. It could be the dream for you. Diving in, dreamscape, symbols and lessons emerge -- and the soul and the emotions of...
Think, Don’t Even…
I was thinking... No I wasn't. When I contemplate the idea of thinking, I wonder -- what's the point? What I wonder about is the link between the state of dreaming, and the state of thinking. Isn't the examination of the dream state not far from the lift of thinking? That takes me to meaning. In the ancient meditations on the nature of the word(s) -- there is always something that lies beneath. That idea of something lying beneath is where thinking lives, in the silent observatory. Considering...
THE RIGHT WAY
Photo by Tim Girvin WAYFINDING, THE SIGN, MOVING TO THE RIGHT PATH There is an art in the design of wayfinding, that links to the notion of the rightful way. A sign points -- and where do I go? Is that -- right? What is right, turning in the path of the sun, which might be in the one solution -- the light-filled movement. In others, it is the darker and more shadowed way. I go both, to the intuited calling -- seeing there, I ponder: "which, to the sensing is right -- for that moment?" In the...