How We Live
1. We smell flowers. It's a good starting place. Soon we'll notice the delicate aromas of other things too - like grass and people and whatever happens to be riding the wind.
2. We stretch. Our faces, our lungs our inner thighs, our chests, our hands.
3. We enjoy, dance to and play music. Singing alone counts. Rundancing counts. Silence counts.
3a. Play! In play we find ourselves and in ourselves we find life. We see the world and recognize the absurdity of purpose taken too seriously. The paradox is this: service, political redesign, and artistic manifestation require the integrity that is built on a foundation of innovation and trust. How do we grow these? (see 3a)
4. We eat and cook (or prepare) the best food possible - food that grows in the ground near where we live or are eating it.
5. We think about bees. We consider them. We taste honey like it is what it is.
6. We listen to people. Especially to those six years and younger, sixty years and older. There is wisdom here and there are good stories.
6a. Listen to and tell stories. Wild stories, simple stories, dream stories and sad stories. "Mythological thinking helps us face the inevitabilities of our lives." ~Joseph Campbell
7. Give. When we do, we realize we have more than imagined.
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