Entries from January 2008

January 28, 2008

Here’s to a victorious EPIC morning… YES!!

So after about six miles of snowshoeing… through totally fresh snow… being the first one out on the Swampy Lakes trails after this massive snowfall yesterday, my epic morning is a success. My legs feel like they are going to fall off and my back is killing me, but I made it to the snow [...]

January 25, 2008

Mystery… who gets it?!?

How do I describe mystery? How do I help another to embrace mystery and walk in it… to use it and welcome it in its drawing people? Mystery cannot be described for it would then no longer be considered mystery…. YET there is something to mystery that can be considered. And how then can another [...]

January 24, 2008

Joyful morning encounters… only in Bend…

Had breakfast at the McKay Cottage this morning with Kev and B-Mac. Entering cold, half-asleep, “wake-up music” as I open the door… loud and heavy. The perfect table situated in proximity to the fireplace… perfect. Smiling to myself as the music is turned down and changed to something a bit more “appropriate” for the common [...]

January 24, 2008

Beginning the questioning…

Darren has a good question here:
What does it mean to be emergent?

January 23, 2008

New site for Central Oregon Emergents

http://centraloregonemerge.com

January 22, 2008

Becoming the invitation… defining success

When our success is marked by quantitative measures, we are bound for unfulfillment… for it seems to measure our success by the number of people who show up, the amount of profit we produce versus the amount we spend, or the number of products sold, we are going to get stuck… stuck trying to get [...]

January 19, 2008

Of the inexpressible realm

Things are not so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.
~Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to [...]