Attached is the song I mentioned earlier this evening in group. It is an old, traditional British Isles ballad. If you click on the attached file, it will hopefully play for you. It is a lovely old ballad. Here are the lyrics.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
I forgot to mention last week that I have a monthly Tuesday commitment that this month falls on the 22nd. So I will have to miss this week's Vocation Group meeting. Sorry I will not be able to be there.
..though there are patterns, even in the tangledness....
This idea of DiscoverRing Vocation has been a learning experience from the first moment for me, and I am opening as much as possible to the learning and asking for more. On that note, as one me
When you used the term "ecology of partnership" on our first call, it really struck something in me. Want to explore it further and create something around it? Maybe we can find a way to frame it mythologically, or create a sort of visual
I offer this radio interview with Steven Jenkinson, which even though its about death and dying, offers a languaging which is original, simple and piercing as a sword, as he call
How is everyone doing on your experimental Action out in the world? If you haven't really thought about it, please take a few minutes now to work toward whatever you committed to try, whether it is journaling, meditation, thinking, exploring somethin
I wasn't sure if I should post this as a new discussion or as a part of Jesse's posts. Is it somehow connected with our work? Our call? I don't know yet...
I spoke on last night's call about the synchronicities happening here around this shaman, etc
"Song of the Lark", a poem by David Whyte, was read to me a few hours before our Tuesday meeting -
so I looked it up and found the poem and Whyte's explaination of an exaltation of larks as a symbol of humanity's ability to speak out into the world a
Please post your reflections or ideas on what how you would like to see this group move forward. There are multiple options of course, some of them being:
1. Continue the "depth discussion" format where we see what topic arises each week
After our conversation today, it feels as though this group is "embarking on a journey of epic proportions"! As an opening to the project of languaging and possibly re-visioning Depth Psychology as we currently see it, here is a relevant quote from