Comments on: Water… http://catskillcottageseed.com/2009/01/02/water/ Positioning within the Imaginal Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:48:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Richard Reeve http://catskillcottageseed.com/2009/01/02/water/comment-page-1/#comment-3530 Richard Reeve Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:08:01 +0000 http://catskillcottageseed.com/?p=1208#comment-3530 Hey Detlef, There's a really interesting book sitting on my shelf by Havelock called "The Muse learns to Write" which explores the relationship of the psyche to language and the transition from orality to the written word. We no longer give each other the time and space needed to deal with these images through oral sharing, so I really think we need to take the time to put them in writing. Thanks for your sharing... Hey Detlef,
There’s a really interesting book sitting on my shelf by Havelock called “The Muse learns to Write” which explores the relationship of the psyche to language and the transition from orality to the written word. We no longer give each other the time and space needed to deal with these images through oral sharing, so I really think we need to take the time to put them in writing.
Thanks for your sharing…

]]> By: Detlef Cordes http://catskillcottageseed.com/2009/01/02/water/comment-page-1/#comment-3321 Detlef Cordes Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:59:01 +0000 http://catskillcottageseed.com/?p=1208#comment-3321 Sid, thank you for the reminder: what do our streams wash away? According to legend Lao Tse was forced to write by a toll keeper, Socrates and Jesus didn't write at all, because the concept of writing was still young at their time and they understood the limits of this concept. Richard, which part of our psyche is able to relate to the written word? Which part understands "language"? Is it possible to translate an image? Can you translate music into a narrative? I stopped sleeping with a notebook on my bed stand, as I often experienced that the dream slipped away in the process of writing it down, whereas it lingered when I simply let it be and let the image and the sounds work. Thanks for the invigorating water of this post, Richard. <abbr><em>Detlef Cordes´s last blog post..<a href="http://licht.detlefcordes.org/2009/01/consider-yourself-lucky/" rel="nofollow">Consider yourself lucky</a></abbr></em> Sid, thank you for the reminder: what do our streams wash away? According to legend Lao Tse was forced to write by a toll keeper, Socrates and Jesus didn’t write at all, because the concept of writing was still young at their time and they understood the limits of this concept.

Richard, which part of our psyche is able to relate to the written word? Which part understands “language”? Is it possible to translate an image? Can you translate music into a narrative?

I stopped sleeping with a notebook on my bed stand, as I often experienced that the dream slipped away in the process of writing it down, whereas it lingered when I simply let it be and let the image and the sounds work.

Thanks for the invigorating water of this post, Richard.

Detlef Cordes´s last blog post..Consider yourself lucky

]]> By: Chris Allison http://catskillcottageseed.com/2009/01/02/water/comment-page-1/#comment-3320 Chris Allison Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:49:05 +0000 http://catskillcottageseed.com/?p=1208#comment-3320 Richard, I appreciate reading your spiritual take on the everyday world around us, it's a refresher from all the tech speak that goes on in the social media space. I also really like your comparison of feeds to rain barrels. It seems to me that I can't read all of my feeds each day, but some of the feeds will be of value and hopefully I'll read those. Likewise it won't rain everyday, but hopefully my barrels will catch some water when it does. Richard,

I appreciate reading your spiritual take on the everyday world around us, it’s a refresher from all the tech speak that goes on in the social media space. I also really like your comparison of feeds to rain barrels. It seems to me that I can’t read all of my feeds each day, but some of the feeds will be of value and hopefully I’ll read those. Likewise it won’t rain everyday, but hopefully my barrels will catch some water when it does.

]]> By: Sid Parham http://catskillcottageseed.com/2009/01/02/water/comment-page-1/#comment-3319 Sid Parham Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:55:25 +0000 http://catskillcottageseed.com/?p=1208#comment-3319 Toaism is often called "The Water Course Way." Because the gentle flowing of the water shapes the land. Given enough time nothing can resist it. So if as the sage in your story says we are looking to the balance of heaven, we must pay attention not only to what the water grows, but also to what is washed away. The one can't happen without the other. As writers or providers of content we have to ask what do our streams of information wash away? What languished while I nourish these ideas here. If I provide content, what am leaving out. We can not help but erode things as we create other things, but both good gardening and good writing ask that we be conscious of the loss as well as the gain, <abbr><em>Sid Parham´s last blog post..<a href="http://oldbeforewise.com/?p=38" rel="nofollow">Tragedy, un-American</a></abbr></em> Toaism is often called “The Water Course Way.” Because the gentle flowing of the water shapes the land. Given enough time nothing can resist it. So if as the sage in your story says we are looking to the balance of heaven, we must pay attention not only to what the water grows, but also to what is washed away. The one can’t happen without the other.

As writers or providers of content we have to ask what do our streams of information wash away? What languished while I nourish these ideas here. If I provide content, what am leaving out. We can not help but erode things as we create other things, but both good gardening and good writing ask that we be conscious of the loss as well as the gain,

Sid Parham´s last blog post..Tragedy, un-American

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