My mind is extremely scattered today.

[kiya]

You can spend all your time making money
You can spend all your love making time
If it all goes to pieces tomorrow
Will you still be mine?

Yeah. Thing.

Managed to beat the theology essay that's been nagging at me for the last several days into some semblance of order. Not sure I said what I needed to say, entirely, but it's a start.

Futzed about with laundry.

Stairs.

Same as it ever was.

So feeling unprepared for my training weekend ....

"Let what I am be then, in some part, at all times, set and secure, a passionate witness, taking itself to pieces carefully, unendingly, preserving the obvious pledges made, the original duty." --Pablo Neruda, courtesy erispope

Free thought: living in ma'at, living genuinely, is bearing witness to one's ren.

Comments

[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

Free thought: living in ma'at, living genuinely, is bearing witness to one's ren.

Any chance you'd be willing to expand a bit more on what you mean by that? I didn't really understand it, but I'm definitely curious.

[ardaniel]

I'm not Kiya, but I figure that if you're living in a state of active truth-- of being who you are and doing what you say-- you're a testament to the power held within your Name, the energy accessed in heka.

(I'm also not Kemetic, so I could well be speaking from my arse. ;)

[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

Well, if you are, you have a very articulate arse. :)

It's weird. I just finished an incredibly good fantasy novel that had a significant bit about the power of words, especially written words and names, and then I walked out and read Kiya's post. And got, as I so often do with what she writes, that sense of something very important sitting just out of reach somewhere.

[kiya]

ardaniel has it right.

I've been weirdly obsessed with the concept of witnessing lately, of standing as a witness. I think it comes of hanging out with the jackal boys.

[arianadawnhawk.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'll watch out for it then. I don't know if it would come from just one Jackal. :)

I have been working with the concept of witnessing lately - it makes some of what I do, especially in LJ, make more sense.

I've been extra obsessed with the concept of holding space lately, in various more and less literal ways. I wonder if it comes from being deeply territorial myself, literally and metaphorically. That I can recognize the importance of allowing others territory... I don't know.

[rubberskunk.livejournal.com]

Extremely scattered with a chance of brain.

My contribution for the day.