.... I must tell you about the Meat Cleaver ...... .... have you seen one close to your face - moving fast? Have been out all day in a Training Development context and it was fab ........ I was a bit nervy as I journeyed for two and a half hours to get there ........ but the group was incredibly inspiring to me ........ I feel I am on a A Class drug as a result. I was set alight by humans, who are not in the best social situation, but alive and kicking ........ so much to offer ........ it only needs a small drill penetrating into their souls ...... I am up and out tomorrow for another day - much ..... much different than today ....... I will post a flurry of pix - I must. I feel good and focus full = being and yearning with humans who are close to the edge ....... inspire me .......... churn my soul ......
I have just got the results of a personality test and they couldn't find one .......
YES they could ...... just a joke but I did do the test and I will find it interesting as still try to explore/understand myself ... ......... the beautiful and the imperfection . ...... ... the results are in a PDF file and dummo me don't know how to swipe a page and turn it into a jpeg for this blogspace ..... I would like to show the graphs and comment because it highlights my strengths and weaknesses and I want to own both - live with both - grow with both and kick the darkness ...... because I can grow and want to change and touch the raw and you can help me do that ...... ...................... and it is beautiful to work with such beauty full humans ..........
A few weeks ago ... .... ...
I mentioned how I was travelling back from a gig and .............. I was on the M1 and I placed a pad of paper between my legs as the tyres and my eyes gripped the road at speed ............... at the same time my mind was speeding and churning ....... and my pen was writing this .. ....... ............. Growth does not reside in a place called comfortable Human Development does not reside in a place called certainty Wholeness does not reside in a place called self Freedom does not reside in a place called Security © www.Pipwilson.com
... I just lurve to meet and level Five the most beautiful humans ..... in a beautiful-imperfect place .......
I have never had a Lent Book ... ..... but you could say that :: An Interrupted Life
The diaries and Letters of
Etty Hillesum 1941-43
.... is my Lent Reading. She started to write these diaries in 1941 when Holland was under the increasingly horrific control of Germany. She was 27 and lived in Amsterdam - and a Jew.
She died in Auschwitz in November 1943 with her last diary which was never found. She was a woman who was always wanting to be aware of another dimension in her life. An interior journey - that's why I bought it and that is what is gripping me. She had many affairs and encountered spiritual transformation. She was a human full of feelings and self examination. It is a Level Five book. I am only up to page 31 but already I am drinking in her reflected life, her struggle with self acceptance, the subtle movements of her feelings which she was great at sensing and articulating.
Her inner life was a small battlefield -
She was in a constant internal dialogue................ here is - before me - a human on a spiritual journey who seems to be finding God by accident. A quote from her :: "God's world is so beautiful despite everything and it fills me with Joy"
...... and the last words in her diary .... "We should be willing to act as the balm for all wounds"
This book is my intake before I retire each night and I wonder ............... bhp.
I miss my Sheilas ... 
.... I have not seen them since we spent the week-end in Reims drinking Champagne ........ hmmm
Dave L.5.
Blob Theory “Life is difficult”
says M. Scott Peck in his marvellous book, ‘The Road Less Travelled’.
Everyone has a feel-osophy of how life is, and how to negotiate it.
Some have a better grasp of reality than others.
Blobs have a basic idea which enables them to be successful in almost every context, with every people group, in every age. They cross so many boundaries because they speak the universal languages of emotion and body gestures. From the age of infancy we become fluent in these ways of communication before we even talk or read. This knowledge enables us to understand others and ourselves. Blobs are beautiful humans who are full of imperfections.
They display a whole range of qualities that we might admire or despise.
They interact with all aspects of what it is to be fully human. The final ideas are based on the thoughts of Pip Wilson. The closer we get to someone, the higher our level of communication becomes. Level one is cliché – what we say when we pass people by each day.
Level two is fact. We might tell people that it is cold. We let others know that we have passed an exam. It is informative, but very safe, because we do not disclose our inner thoughts.
Level three – opinions begins to do this. We share our ideas about subjects. It sometimes leads us into conflict. It is the beginning of sharing who we are.
Level four is the start of telling others who we really are. It is the realm of emotions. Here we uncover how we feel about changes to our life, our job and our beliefs.
Level five is complete openness. It is a level rarely achieved.
The Blob Tree can be used at all the levels and especially level four and five......... from Blob Tree dot com ............
Tim L.5.
Bob L5
