11:10 Tuesday 15 December 2015 JST
Hmmm. Last night the idea of presenting at Pecha Kucha came to mind. Could be a good place to speak about authenticity
Some fragments came to mind while walking to the station
- I like walking barefoot (on beach)
- Not just on the beach but everwhere I can (collage of barefeet walking)
- Don’t worry about what people think
- Just be happy
- Not always happy
- Sometimes life can be surprising (surprise snake)
- What if we could talk about it?
- Not to a mirror, but to a person who listens
- What if we take time to sit and just be (black screen)
- Sometimes we might find monsters
- but it turns out they’re just unheard sadness
- I broke my shoulder (x-ray picture)
- Had just meditated so wasn’t bothered
- I lost my rabbit (Francois picture)
- found him all cleaned up and repaired on Ebay!
- Life’s little mysteries (factory production line thousand copies Francois)
- Sometimes people fight like this (not listening picture)
- I’m afraid. scared to come up here.
- Can I tell you that? Can I be honest with you?
- Will you still like me? Still listen to me?
- My pessimistic side says you won’t. I’ll be booed off stage and I’m doing it wrong and no one will understand and it will just be terrrible
- But I can’t control other people’s responses. More important question:
- Will I still like myself?
- You know when you walk barefoot outside in the city and you step on a piece of glass and you have to ask your wife to dig in there with a needle to pull it out, and you’re just lying there feeling helpless with a needle near a sensitive part of your body? I mean the feet!
- Probably not. That’s why I encourage people to use “I-statements.”
- Sometimes, when I walk outside in Tokyo, I step on a piece of glass and can feel it lodged in my foot. I limp for the rest of the day and then ask my wife to dig in there with a needle to pull it out.
- But I don’t feel helpless, because I trust her.
- Can I trust her with my soul? Sure; it’s eternal. What about my feelings and emotions? Uh oh! Scary!