Hello my friends;
If I am not intruding I would like to offer a suggestion to tuck away and think about now and then concerning the
Turning World. (
The world is changing. ) Not in the way we might expect; not in the way we hoped it would or thought it would or think it will be.
But changing it is!
Think about how much in the past years of our lifetime events like the Arab Spring for instance; or the Internet; or the Human Genome Project and then consider we didn't know then just like we don't know now about how these things would happen. There will be things both scary and amazing; frightening or exciting; and through it all we will be challenged; we will grow; and we will be here to share it if we choose.
What I am offering is this; (
we don't know - we just don't ). But could you have imagined a few years ago we would be
here having a conversation like this; contemplating global changes unimaginable in our grandparents or parents lifetime with boundaries and once held thoughts literally disappearing right before our eyes? It is changing at an rate of ever increasing rate speed to the point now that you can actually see it happen online in the moment, globally.
Wow! (
Think of that! ) We are having this conversation from different points of the planet just like we were at a small cafe together somewwhere. (
What a priviledge! )
And it is not just technology that is changing but people are changing as well. Not just with smartphones and laptops or desktops;but what they think and the way they look at the things that they contemplate. Also consider Google and the availability of information for instance; or software; or any of the dozens of other tech hardware and applications like GPS, music or video entertainment; or medical science breakthroughs and on and on and on.
From my timeline growing up to go on about how my computer was a pensil, paper and a library card evolving to this level is not the point.
What I'm getting at is the way we envision what's ahead. We have no idea where we are headed but by speculation. We know there will most likely be war and disease and calamity. Things done by people to fellow human beings that will shock us or terror by natural causes that leave us feeling helpless before their power or any number of other nightmares that one could never conceive of. (
As Joe says acceptance of the nature of life is rule #1 and you are not going to change it. But you can participate with compassion in it's suffering with the joy of living in the knowledge that you are part of an existing and unfolding wonderous specticle in all it's magnificent glory. ) Like an
Opera that hurts or a grand symphony from the microscopic to the macronomic; from the virus to the flower; from the songbird to the spaceship all performing before us on a timeless ground of earth and in a play of which we have a part. A poem we participate in perhaps by thinking of ritual as applied in this sense and in a new way. That ritualizing the little things we do like sharing a meal; or meditating; or helping our fellow human beings; or coming here to this website as part of that experience. Not just as entertainment, diversion, or curiousity; but as informing who we are; what we do; and what we may become -
together - as a community of like mind;(
unique in our different individuality; but united in our humanity ).
The Old World in many senses is falling away; faster than we realize; and countries will change too even though there are things that look dark and foreboding with ominious clouds rising in the distance.
But the changes will come what ever they are and come they will; and we only can do the the best we can.
But perhaps something new is being born and we are here to see it and be part of it in whatever way we are able. And I also think there are things ahead that will challenge everything we have; everything we know; and everything we can be in the broadest sense imaginable.(
And to have this kind of company these days to witness it all and share it is pretty cool. )