Shocking, I know,
but the content of both of them have my brain working overtime to coalesce the ideas of them both into something that is tickling at the edge of my brain and yet will not be still and take shape when I try to look at it.
Non-Violent Communication and Kitchen Table Wisdom were suggested to me from two different sources and acquired from two different sources without a set timetable dictating their arrival. The fact that I ended up finishing them one after the other was not planned but certainly seems fortuitous now.
There are ideas about honoring the life within us all and supporting wholeness, in attitude and action, and taking the time to heal, love, and honor the life in others that I want combined and recorded so I remember how to live these ideas when annoyance with family, irritation with strangers, and pressures of daily life crowd into my mind and make it easy to react with no awareness of the healing or harm engendered by my words and actions.
It’s nearly 2 am now and my brain won’t be still and let me sleep, instead it keep working on how the idea pieces of these two authors fit together to form a puzzle that details daily courses of action as well as an overarching philosophical framework that seems suitable to integrate into principles and practices I’ve already chosen as priorities in my life.
It may well be that the unexamined life is not worth living but I wish my brain would save it for day light hours!
