What if you knew that growth emerges from under the surface?
Last week seemingly out of nowhere tiny new leaves began to appear on the frangipani tree outside my bedroom window. Spring has arrived here in Sydney Australia. The day before, blunted thick wooden stumps were all I could see.
The phrase ‘ag borradh’ in Irish (translated by the late Irish philosopher & poet John O’Donohue) means that there is a quivering life about to break forth.
Life comes out of the unknown.
I find this reassuring. There is a lot that we can predict and control but the mystery at the heart of life is more than we can fathom.
A recent study has shown that the default mode network in the brain, has a casual relationship with creative thinking. It is more active when we are at rest, bored and daydreaming.
We certainly need creative thinking now to find novel ways to deal with our apparently insurrmountable problems.
As the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres said in his speech at the beginning of COP27 “we are on the highway to hell with our foot on the accelerator”
Sending love and courage
Aine
Prompts for your Week
Prompts for your week
What conditions do we need develop to enable vitality, creativity, growth in ourselves, in our relationships, at different scales.
What do we need to stop and drop?
What new buds can we pay attention to?
