Wonderful, Wayne. I'll always remember with some shame and incomprehension the time I just stood by and watched, upset, as a neighbourhood kid threw darts at frog lamely trying to hop away into the grass. . . . I was just a kid too, but that moment was emblem of many other moments in my life, I know. I look at that younger Me and want …
Wonderful, Wayne. I'll always remember with some shame and incomprehension the time I just stood by and watched, upset, as a neighbourhood kid threw darts at frog lamely trying to hop away into the grass. . . . I was just a kid too, but that moment was emblem of many other moments in my life, I know. I look at that younger Me and want to shake him into saying something! Whatever social powers paralyzed me then, seem so inconsequential now. . . .that hood was my World, but having moved into a wider world since, I can see it was a small world with limits, with many arbitrary constraints. . . . constraints that can be challenged. Perhaps something like a religious view on our current world, or just a sense of a better, bigger-hearted world possible, lets us get outside the current one somewhat, and gives us that independent standpoint to challenge current cruelties and injustices. If we could go back to Grade Two knowing what we know now, we'd be awesome; analogously, there's some perspective or mode from which our current self is Grade Two-ish, and if we can just capture a glimmer of that possibility and carry it with us into this world, it can literally encourage us. . . .
Wonderful, Wayne. I'll always remember with some shame and incomprehension the time I just stood by and watched, upset, as a neighbourhood kid threw darts at frog lamely trying to hop away into the grass. . . . I was just a kid too, but that moment was emblem of many other moments in my life, I know. I look at that younger Me and want to shake him into saying something! Whatever social powers paralyzed me then, seem so inconsequential now. . . .that hood was my World, but having moved into a wider world since, I can see it was a small world with limits, with many arbitrary constraints. . . . constraints that can be challenged. Perhaps something like a religious view on our current world, or just a sense of a better, bigger-hearted world possible, lets us get outside the current one somewhat, and gives us that independent standpoint to challenge current cruelties and injustices. If we could go back to Grade Two knowing what we know now, we'd be awesome; analogously, there's some perspective or mode from which our current self is Grade Two-ish, and if we can just capture a glimmer of that possibility and carry it with us into this world, it can literally encourage us. . . .
Thanks for sharing this, Paul