From the monthly archives:

January 2009

The work as the path

January 17, 2009

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“The goal is important only as an idea: the essential thing is the opus which leads to the goal: that is the goal of a lifetime.” ~Carl Jung, The Psychology of Transference
Without digging further into the references, I’d like to share a sense of our condition from two perspectives.  Jung felt that the [...]

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Exhaustion

January 16, 2009

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I came to the laptop ready to pour myself out, and lately that can run from two to four hours of sustained focus.  But it didn’t happen.  I simply do not have the needed energy right now.  I’m exhausted and here’s how I know it.
I’ve posted briefly on active imagination.  At one point [...]

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Getting to the Essentials

January 15, 2009

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I’m riffing off what my friend Jeb posted:  On the road to nowhere.  It’s a bleak picture painted of the world’s current situation, and it seems to be rapidly gaining in plausibility.  Likewise our options facing these problems as individuals, well, that’s just getting more demoralizing.  There comes a point where [...]

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A One Trick Pony

January 15, 2009

I’ve been traveling for five days and greeted my almost seven year old son at the breakfast table this morning with stories of the desert; the wild horse I could hear but not see, the Indian petroglyphs, the hundreds of acres of fire scarred cactus “…and oh yeah…I got you something. Something you can put [...]

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In the Jewelry Store

January 14, 2009

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Dream:  In a jewelry store looking at the diamond rings.
Amplification : A mere fragment of a dream image opens this next series.  The condensed imagery is full of context like the six word story of Hemingway : “For sale:, baby shoes, never worn.”  Guys shop for diamond rings before making a proposal.
Diamonds according [...]

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Touching Points

January 14, 2009

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Touching points are what I’m after, not numbers.  It’s clearer and clearer each day as I engage with people in this space and across the social media platforms.
I do notice that the numbers tend to indicate how many touching points I can expect to emerge.  For instance, for each thousand [...]

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Keep me out of traffic…

January 13, 2009

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An interesting topic took off on Twitter today concerning offers to generate traffic that sometimes come in emails or other spammy ways (like auto-generated DM’s).
It’s been important for me to extend my reach in Social Media.  I can tell you the exact day I made the decision to go out and [...]

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Overview on a Layover

January 13, 2009

My jaunt to the desert has run into travel taffy time.  For some reason, it always seems to take me longer then I planned when leaving the desert.  Last night I missed my connecting flight by five minutes at O’Hare and I’m currently doing my best to be “productive” (shout out to Jeb Dickerson).
So I [...]

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Red Rocks at Sunrise

January 12, 2009
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The Muse

January 12, 2009

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(Zoe Westhof asked in the comments, “I’m curious to know your thoughts on the muse as an archetypal image?”)
Historically, the muses were figures of inspiration that provided the impetus for poets and artists to create.  In Jung’s thoughts we can glipmse these figures within his writings on the Anima.  Like all the archetypes, [...]

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