HONOURING the LIFE and WORKS of EVE REVERE . . . It has been almost two years since Eve Revere passed away. I would like to take this opportunity to continue to post Eve's writings at A Celebration of Women. If you, the reader, wish to discuss any of the contents, please be welcome to correspond with me, Eve's partner: [email protected] … [Read more...]
Honouring the Life and Works of Eve Revere . . .
Freedom: From, To, Of, For and With and the Complementarities
Freedom From , To , Of , For and With and the Complementarities Freedom Specified We may conceive of freedom as freedom from, freedom to, freedom of, freedom for and freedom with. Freedom from may require inhibition, constraints, limits, obstructions or boundaries. Freedom to, freedom of, freedom for and freedom with, may require the removal of those same inhibitions, constraints, limits, obstructions or boundaries. Complementarity and Sense Because freedom of the one kind … [Read more...]
The YIN MIND
The YIN MIND ________________________________________________________________ It is a culturally propagated influence: simplify and generalize! Why? Because we are cognitively impaired. We are and we have become closed. We seek certainty. Analysis is the method: to know by taking things apart, with our minds or with our hands. One scientific method commends us to isolate and to define. We presume a single path connection of cause and effect. In fact, at … [Read more...]
The Very Gentlest of Ways, “Tip-toe through the tulips . . . “
The YIN MIND ___________________________________________________________ As far back as I can remember, I have always wanted only that to which I was most welcome. It even applied to attention, to regard, to respect. Most of all, it applied to love. So often, I've challenged gestures of generosity. Part of the reason for that was to try to discriminate between bartered gifts and that which was really meant to support, uphold, nourish, what I hold as purpose. As though I … [Read more...]