Month: June 2016

[We live] in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
—John Dewey

What surmise or mystery leads you forward?

There are moments where it seems like our life maps should be labeled: “Here be dragons.” You look to the edge of the known world and all you can see before you is uncharted waters. And there is nothing for it but to swim.

What have you discovered beyond the edges of your known world?

The moon waxes and wanes, hides behind clouds and then reemerges, flirting.

What do you love for its changing nature?

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of [our] desire to understand.”
—Neil Armstrong

What mystery makes you long to understand something?

Imagine living in a world where all you knew was what you could glean from the world immediately around you—no phone, no internet, no TV. But you would know your neighbors and your environment with a depth beyond what we moderns have ever experienced.

What stands in the way of your deep knowing?