now that you've told me you want to know this... now that you've asked..that's mentoring alongside.
that's listening, without an agenda, waiting, without a time clock.. for the curiosity (the curriculum within each person) to show up.
it's not forcing the curiosity,..
or mandating it, measuring it, presupposing it will be provable, assuming it will be our perception of an essential or a basic...
it's trusting curiosity.. to show up.
it's giving curiosity this space of permission, this timeless wilderness, where it may appear that nothing is going on, ... to show up. to just be.
in whatever form, or intensity, or duration, it so chooses. today. right now.
the vulnerability in context, in each moment, as we all are becoming. none of us ever replicable, no moment repeatable.. never the same.
yet one constant, one glad refrain...today I am alive.
what are you choosing to do with that moment. that day...
that's what we listen for.
that's what we model..
that's who we are, and who we become.
we become an ear... to that.
our gift to the world.
[why do we keep on teaching/preaching answers to questions that no one is asking. no one will ever know if these presumed answers are, as we say, right, because no one cares enough to question them. no one is awake to their statement... their claim. could anything ever be right anyway, beyond that moment, that context...
rigor and deep practice and authentic learning ... come when we embrace this vulnerability in context, when we swim in uncertainty, in irresolution. that's what keeps us on the edge, in the edge, ..and alive, and sharp, and unknowing, usefully ignorant.
experimenting. always freed up, for the purpose, for the pleasure, of finding things out...]
