Ronin?
Help me with the spelling next time I see you 🤣
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That movie:
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On his page at the bottom is a link to “Familiar Shoes”
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A quote from A Life of One’s Own
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Great talking with you!
Thinking out loud, and being listened to, is like watching? Experiencing? The flow of water from a natural spring. I’ve actually seen one, when I was a young lad at Red Rock Lake (summer camp for me whilst growing up)
We were on a path through the woods! And there by the trail was a little pool of water.
A good listener! Here’s something to illustrate what I mean>
Someone had obvs happened upon it before us, because there, propped up on a rock, was a PVC pipe, when we pulled it over clear, cool water flowed out! Our Sherpa let us know what it was, and we had a taste! Safe to drink!
Letting the water flow, will create a stream? I mean think about it here. Someone interfered – nicely – with nature here! Who knows what was prevented?!? A lake? A stream? A River? The river that salmon returning to spawn would be searching for?!?
If the pressure from the spring overcame gravity enough to flow out the hoisted end… it would do so, so let’s just settle down here
That PVC pipe is what I mean when I say what I have to say about SHOULD….
A good listener is like the one who gently places the PVC pipe parallel to the earth, and lets the water flow…
My writing at this point is coming from that spring within my soul. That it be unaffected – without pretence! Is my absolute hope!
Everything that is really fundamental in a man, and therefore genuine works, as such, unconsciously; in this respect like the power of
nature. That which has passed through the domain of consciousness is thereby transformed into an idea or picture; and so if it comes to be uttered, it is only an idea or picture which passes from one person to another.
Accordingly, any quality of mind or character that is genuine and lasting, is originally unconscious; and it is only when unconsciously brought into play that it makes a profound impression. If any like quality is consciously exercised, it means that it has been worked up; it becomes intentional, and therefore matter of affectation, in other words, of deception.
If a man does a thing unconsciously, it costs him no trouble; but if he tries to do it by taking trouble, he fails. This applies to the origin of those fundamental ideas which form the pith and marrow of all genuine work. Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical life, in literature, or in art, must follow the rules without knowing them…
Running Down Vimy 