The no sense, sense.
Wading into the haze
Meaning is a smattering of observation and experience fitting together to make some form of light. Every system of belief is observation, turned to meaning making, turned to some form of transmission.
The results of this exercise might not make concrete sense, but let it be a haze you return to.
The patten of snowflakes falling is insane, but it makes a peaceful and beautiful landscape.
We do not need to fully make sense of things for them to guide us.
Respond to five of the below and stack them into a poem esque form, one line on top of the next:
Write about the second memory that comes to your mind regarding holiday season.
What is one lesson a pet of yours wanted to impart? If you have never had a pet, a lesson another friend or family members pet wanted to impart.
Write out your immediate response to the question, “what happened?” not related to any of the other prompts.
Write out a memory from a childhood house.
Write something you read or learned about in the last week.
Make up a fact you wanted to be true when you were a teenager.
What person / place / or thing do you most see the possibility of Divinity within right now?
Write something from the perspective of an inanimate object in this room as it relates to the emotion you are currently feeling.
Describe something that has happened to you from the perception of someone else.
Write out a song lyric you heard in the past month. It doesn’t have to be right.
Make up a flamboyantly outrageous definition of hope.
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koan: a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment.
Follow along to Mike’s Substack where he will post what he wrote HERE
A piece of writing that was read years ago that, somehow, probably, informed this whole process — A Mickey Mantle Koan by David James Duncan - HERE
Music that inspired this week for mysterious and no particular reasons — the record ILYSM by Wild Pink HERE
Art by Tabitha Soren that seems to hint at what might be going on here — HERE