Walking Each Other Home

February 20, 2022 Carl Barnett

‘We are, as Ram Dass wrote, “walking each other home.”

This pandemic has given us an opportunity, to sit, stay and explore who we are, where we are. To view ourselves in a new light and shine that light forward, inspired by a deeper way of being, supporting ourselves as we support others. We are an imperfect species, but it’s not about being perfect, it’s about equanimity: building the ship, as it sails. We are intrinsic to beauty and the ugly, knowing who we are, our capabilities, eases our living and those we encounter along the way. We are, as Ram Dass wrote, “walking each other home.”

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“The world is complex because we are complex, the Earth is ill because we are. To potentially better our world starts with ourselves, peeling the onion’s storied pages.”

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To live one’s life is no easy task, navigating the minefield of the self and contemporary life. The world is complex because we are complex, the Earth is ill because we are. To potentially better our world starts with ourselves, peeling the onion’s storied pages. Beauty has its ugly side, we know it as we know ourselves, we can hide but not from the eye that looks within. We create, destroy and begin again daily, as we navigate the path we are building. We are the reflection of the energy we came from, and the world we continue to create. The question in life is not can we, but how, the why before the what.

Beauty is what we are born into and come from, felt in the hand, chest, and heart. This is who we are, our shared experience, void of the differences we have created. If we learn nothing else from this era, let us learn who we are, as we walk each other home.

There Is Beauty Around Us

February 15, 2022 Carl Barnett

“There is beauty around us that’s inspiring, the people, the things we collect, the words we read aloud or alone. This will always be, our constant, the narrow bridge forward, our genetic drive to persevere: love, will, and hope.”

Sense Making

February 13, 2022 Carl Barnett

“We cling to the physical world as a means to ease the untamable mind: the capricious self, made of energy.”

How is it that we can love an object almost as much as we love another person, cherishing the light the object brings. We are innate collectors and creators, sense makers of the world within and around us, building futures as we untether from the past. We cling to the physical world as a means to ease the untamable mind: the capricious self, made of energy.

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“The physical world of things is a mirror to our ways of thinking, sense-making, and our drive to persevere.”

It is not misguided to say that we are attached to the things we collect, as they speak deeply to who we are, giving rise to sensations that dwell deep within. They are extensions to our identity, physical evidence of who we think we are and wish to become. They hold our memories, stir sensations that tell us we’re alive, living in a world of beauty and the ugly. The physical world of things is a mirror to our ways of thinking, sense-making, and our drive to persevere.

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We are romantics, pragmatic hopefuls, each with the potential for good and bad. As we create our world, we create ourselves, from the beauty of who we are, and are not.

Intuitive Ways Of Living

February 3, 2022 Carl Barnett

“The way we live is intuitive: our needs, wants, and desires.”

The way we live is intuitive: our needs, wants, and desires. What we create and collect reflects this, it’s an intimacy with the self, and those with whom we are surrounded. A means to ease the mind and body, bringing solace and beauty to our living. This is where we are in this era, a need for solace and clarity, to see who we are, and who we are not. To pause and see the bigger picture, and where we sit within it: who we are, and where we are going.

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“History is a woven line that binds all cultures, each with its own particular tradition of raising children and living life.”

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History is memory, document, and genetic coding, held in the mind and body, informing what we think, feel, and physically do. We are tied to history by traditions and our childhood, the way our parents raised us, how they were raised, what was collected, and what we collect. History is a woven line that binds all cultures, each with its own particular tradition of raising children and living life. Viewed from a bigger perspective, one sees the underlying thread that binds: our universal desire for purpose, meaning, beauty and joy.

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“We are creators and collectors, living our lives, building our futures, and correcting our wrongs.”

We are by nature, curious collectors, seeking beauty and purpose in life. Perpetual in behavior, we will always be gatherers, in groups, and of things, finding comfort in the like-minded, and objects of beauty. Archeologists often find cities of gridded stone walls, full of objects created, collected, and used. This will always be, our human document, whether on Earth or deeper into the universe of stars.

We are creators and collectors, living our lives, building our futures, and correcting our wrongs.

“Our ways of living are intuitive, brought from the gut and your traditions of history. When we are mindful, we know what brings us joy and expand upon it, smoothing our passing forward. Life is difficult, our time here finite, to create change and beauty as life allows builds lasting results for generations to come.”

The Creative Beacon

January 30, 2022 Carl Barnett

“The future is open, so should our minds be, allowing creation to expand, bloom and flourish.”

Through time, determination, and the creative endeavor, life can be altered, swayed to a better direction through the trials of being human. It is the creative mind that is our beacon, aligned with technology or on its own. The future is open, so should our minds be, allowing creation to expand, bloom and flourish.

“Creativity is the voice of intuition, who we are, born from the belly of divine energy.”

Creativity is the voice of intuition, who we are, born from the belly of divine energy. The way we live now is built from the creative mind, and the future continues to demand more from us. In order to change, we must create, through biodiversity, sustainability, and fewer better things.

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The universe is our continuous exploration, so too ourselves and all we create. This is who we are, our human nature, curious towards knowledge, beauty, and what the future may hold.

“We are, through centuries of evolution, creators of forward vision, while simultaneously dogmatic in doctrine, pushing and pulling at what we desire the future to be.”