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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Giving thanks....again and again!

Been a lovely thanks giving opportunity.   wow....THIS is supposed to be the superior phone camera?  oh well.

just hello.....almost exhausted......but is nice.  Hope to be revived - for this week!  all my best

Currently
Deception Point
By Dan Brown
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Giving Thanks

for all of YOU!  nice to have you to post to....
some lovely friends invited us over....had the traditional turkey...Too big for her oven!~   had to cook at a friends! and other guests brought foods from their homelands....
like Chop chae from Korea;   http://www.recipegoldmine.com/worldviet/chop-chae.html
Sashimi - freshly spear fished - from Japan, but Florida waters.....trigger fish, snook, mangrove snapper, and porgie.

But none of these are Sammuel!  YES, he returned.....    but that picture is hard....later. 




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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
By Adam Beach, Mandy Patinkin, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Irene Bedard, Eric Schweig
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Paradigm shift - Reconciliation

       paradigm shift   This is a diagram of a paradigm shift.....http://www.thwink.org/sustain/manuscript1/index.htm

Thomas Kuhn talked about this in the 60's   He intellectually talked about what was going on.....how we are stuck.  How we change, and grow....that is ,in this rather dysfuctional world...

THIS is a diagram more about an idealized personal process  pshift2http://www.tomorrowmakers.org/journal/2009/4/9/following-the-paradigm-shift.html   I like the harmonization between insight, logic and action.  All seem necessary - the coordination of them seems critical.

Quigley wrote about the evolution of civilizations, and  Joseph Carroll wrote about Literary Darwinism ( or evolution, or change)  evo thought

http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/what-is-literary-darwinism-an-interview-with-joseph-carroll/

http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/survival-of-the-kindest-an-interview-with-dacher-keltner/

Does this remind anyone else of the Tower of Babel?babel   ah yes.

all this simply comes to the point....of our modern crisis. 

I love the Hero story;  yet in our modern days - without more traditional community supports, this can lead to separation from the family. 

just think of these two heros..

..greek hero  vs.  guitar hero

Who is the hero to the child?  Their Parents, of course!  Reconciliation with this early God-image and the reality of human beings who have various faults is a big job~!    

Hellenism- Hero and Individuation  vs   Hebraism - Jacob and Esau,

reconciliation  and reidentification with the parent figure 

How about the unification of THESE two heros?

greek hero  and   reconcile

Although Esau said he "saw the face of God "  in the face of his brother, later events might suggest all was not totally reconciled.  Still, this was the beginning of "Israel", a start away from  Babel, and back toward the Garden of Eden, where God could dwell with mankind.

I would put forth...that we are looking for the development of Penelope....the faithful wife of Odysseus, who not only waited - but kept the Kingdom for her King, with great cleverness and fortitude.  And of Susanna, in the Hebraic story of Susanna and the Elders, and of Esther, etc.   Dame Julian of Norwich talked of the Mother God  ...  and a contemplative order founded after her teachings has both men and women   http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/17426.htm

God is Not just our Father;  God is our Mother....and our harmonized Parents....

we are looking for Heavenly Parents, in heroic RELATIONAL form

- in human form, here on earth

odysseus  and penelope_at_loom

We need women.....to become heroic women, mothers, daughters, sister.  Women in the dynamic of relationship...where they can bring that motherly essence, and reconciliation

The MOST revolutionary thing, is a woman....being a woman.....   

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EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATIONS, THE
By Carroll Quigley
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Happy 21!!

      a banner~!

a cake!   now all we need is the young man himself!  oh well....he is in dc.  we must wait till THANKSGIVING!  
I can hardly wait! 
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Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel
By Jodi Picoult
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Individuation

    ah yes.....    mom changes position!   advocate, always.  advisor, stepped back a bit.  the process? Individuation!individuation

we go through it....again and again!  welcome to adulthood guys!~  my guy, sam  gets 21 soon.  away from home. Oh well.  he will be back as we ....officially....give thanks.  Glad for that.  We went to New York City last weekend....to celebrate!  3 moms, 3 girls, 2 birthdays....lots of love and memories

nyc moms and girls

Why does it seem new each turn of the wheel?   so....thanks for kids!  as they mature, we remember! 

http://www.psychoideology.com/The-Hero%27s-Journey.html   Carl Jung formulated our current, western formulation.

It is  The hero's journey.  let's begin!   seeing the Met museum of art with many young friends last weekend....lovely time!  

primitive Greek urns.....   not so remarkable.  not unlike much native American art, and others.  geometrical, nice.  about 700 BCE   

THEN.....the jump!  starting around 500 BCE  -  greek  the uniqueness of each individual came out!  you would recognize them today, if you saw them.  VERY different!

the difference?  the HERO! 

 it was the axial age, the convergence of many lives....where men were willing to 'fight the gods'  or the paradigms of their day, for what they knew to be true.  Perhaps they thought something like this...

 

 7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

 8Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

 9Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. (Philippians 4:7-9, King James Version)

Somehow, we began to think.  About EACH OTHER!  and kindness.  And it became worth it....to steal fire from the 'gods'....not in arroagance  But in Love....so the people wouldn't be afraid of the dark, and wouldn't be cold in the night.  amazing. 

prometheus

And we found they were NOT gods, but saw divinity in each other

saw him too, at Rockefeller center!   amen and aju!

Foundation of Faith, the journey

Foundation of Substance, the reason for the journey

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Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey
By Joseph Campbell (III), Jean Erdman, George Lucas, Peter Donat
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