On Reason, Understanding, Meaning, Truth, Knowledge, Wisdom, Intuition...

And other such trivialities

I am feeling: like what follows could come across as humble-brag-ery, but… I Don’t Know. Here and now, I am okay with the not knowing.

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I have long valued my ability to think and to reason. I know enough about myself to know that my thinking and reasoning skills generally don’t let me down. And, for nearly as long as I can remember, I have found great comfort in the domain of reason and logic. If I could understand a thing, a person, a system, a motive, a thought, a feeling, a pattern - well, I drew a great deal of comfort from such reasoned and observation-backed understandings of the world and my place in it.

Over the last 10 years in the world of my 9-to-5 workaday life, I have gained much confidence, coming to a belief that my reasoning skills leave little room—little room for better or better than or better than me. The fastest reason-er I am not, but my reasoning generally lands me in feelings of wisdom. If I see fault in the logic/reasoning of people around me, I feel quite wise, for I see the pitfalls that I managed to avoid. I’m only just wise enough to acknowledge the possibility that others may have similar observations of my own behavior; that I stumble in ways unseen and unknown by me. When I write e-mails or speak with colleagues on matters about which I am regarded as ‘expert,’ I have generally been quite careful to disclaim that I could be mistaken - I could very well be misreading the patterns. This comes out with language like:

• I believe that…

• It appears that…

• I think that…

• generally

• methinks (lol)

• It looks like…

• Here and Now, I believe that…

• I believe you get the point lol

As I’ve mentioned before, I think it is a wise man/woman/child/what-have-you who can freely confess “I don’t know.”

But to be content with “I don’t know” - ???!!! ah, heck no! I wanna know, dammit! I wanna understand. Ever the precocious and curious child, I. lol

My entire worldview has been constructed around an assumption of objective reality. Under such worldview, reason is master of the universe.

And I coulda haz’d it!

🍔

^_~

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I have no fancy graphics

no bright lights

no glittery objects

or shiny things

just these words, from a place of no pretense 
(or, you know, minimal pretense lol),

here and now.

May they spark in you

an ember-- however small

may the wild world's winds

bear the flame

and may the ash float on the breeze

and find new life--

new embers

and love, always



... or something like that!  IDK!  LOL!  ;-)

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I know some things about making assumptions. Like magic, they turn the assumer into a freaking DONKEY! lol

And, speaking figuratively, ain’t nobody wanna be a donkey!

[I’ve got nothing against literal donkeys; both literal and figurative donkeys deserve love too lol]

I don’t know where this whole writing thing goes for me from here, but I am here for it now.

It’s funny and feels very appropriate that I claimed “here&now” on a whim, without much thought; without appreciating how meaningful it would come to feel to me, here and now. It has become something of a mantra: I am here and I am now; my feet are on the ground (for now! lol).

I have only love for you all. Every body, every mind, every soul(?). The beauty overfloweth, and I bathe in it, mind, body, and soul(?).

So… thank you, all of you beautiful minds, bodies, and souls!

and remember, be kind to one another

we are all one body, one mind, one soul

[at least that is what I find myself believing, here&now, but… I don’t know]