tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357504746865893843.post8992256183527690118..comments2023-10-31T12:10:10.293-05:00Comments on Your Happy Makes Me Go Oldies: Closer To The Groundteam ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00404553727721052439noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357504746865893843.post-66439731410018174212008-05-06T23:11:00.000-05:002008-05-06T23:11:00.000-05:00Today, while working, while driving around our fai...Today, while working, while driving around our fair city, I couldn't escape the notion this Mike Wolf raised in relation to Mr. Hawking's comments about our future as space settlers. The notion that we are well on our way towards such an existence. Living through separation, removed from the ground, from each other, communicating through screens. Henry Miller realized this too, some 50 or 60 years ago, when he titled one of his books "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare". We're all, more and more, living in our air-tight, temperature-controlled, media-mediated bubbles, pods, vessels, shuttles, et ceteras! Nightmare indeed! Thank you, Matt, for posting this extended quote. It's needed. We all need to renew this knowledge within ourselves and within each other each and every day. Moment to moment! Let's keep trying, failing, forgetting, trying again, succeeding, failing, learning, loving, trying and trying all the way to wholeness! Yes! Yes! Yes!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357504746865893843.post-42506695275611434182008-05-06T18:40:00.000-05:002008-05-06T18:40:00.000-05:00Skateboarding is another way of not touching the g...Skateboarding is another way of not touching the ground, but then again it can also bring you way closer to the ground than walking...hope you're better than I am!<BR/><BR/>This is very inspiring. Although, a lot of things have inspired me to live like this. Inspiring nonetheless, and a good excuse for doing so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357504746865893843.post-22302303828716064282008-05-06T12:05:00.000-05:002008-05-06T12:05:00.000-05:00That really was great. I've been thinking a lot ab...That really was great. I've been thinking a lot about community lately. My junior year of college I lived in an intentional community, and then this past August-January I did so again, this time with other Americorps volunteers. But it wasn't until leaving that setting and moving away to a place where I know only one other person that the lessons and goals of community have really been trying to do something with me. After church this Sunday I went to a class called 'On being human', which was meant to be a discussion on how we can better relate to other humans. And all that I could think was "community." I feel like I could go on and on, but I guess I'll have to take that rambling over to my own blog.Hannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15701655311224257130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357504746865893843.post-8085266024618714502008-05-06T11:46:00.000-05:002008-05-06T11:46:00.000-05:00Woah! Kloster Tempzin looks amazing. My German is...Woah! Kloster Tempzin looks amazing. My German is way rusty (not that it was ever even good in the first place). How did you end up there?<BR/><BR/>In terms of local planning - there is a potluck at Berry tomorrow night (wednesday) and some Berry folks are planning on doing Karaoke at the Hidden Cove on Thursday night! Our last experience was so incredible, it's hard to not go back. See video on Seth's youtube site:<BR/><BR/>Erica singing Disney:<BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USk-aXg_aLg<BR/><BR/>Us dancing while a Gwar fan sings Whitney:<BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGL_qAtyh0E<BR/><BR/>Also - reporting back from my trip with ted to the skate park: the community there is really nice and pretty awesome! There were all these older guys hanging out skating the bowl, which was really inspiring, and some young guns. I'm really new to park skating, but everyone was really helpful!...its not you, its your narrativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610784084724348322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357504746865893843.post-68598354687821111012008-05-06T10:44:00.000-05:002008-05-06T10:44:00.000-05:00In the summer of 2003, I was on a summer study abr...In the summer of 2003, I was on a summer study abroad trip with a group from my school. One of the components of our study abroad was a 10 day-long practicum in rural northwestern Germany. The group I was with ended up at a former cloister-turned-pilgrim-hostel, run by a Lutheran pastor and his wife, who regularly led pilgrimages around northern Germany. I had the privilege of participating in the beginning of one of these pilgrimages, after a few days of bailing hay and gardening. It was really the first time that I had been outside for such an extended period of time - we were walking upwards of 25 km/day, sleeping on the floors of old churches along the way. I was tracing the footsteps of St. Brigitte from Sweden with about 60 other people, old and young, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, and agnostic, from the east and from the west. It was such a powerful and transcendental experience, and made me long for authentic interaction, in an un-media-mediated setting (I like that word, you should copyright it). I ended up going back a few more times, and try to go back whenever I can.<BR/>I think you're right on, Matt. It does have to be intentional, planned, and thoughtful. It doesn't just happen as a byproduct. And it's a risk. But a risk well worth it.<BR/>Thanks for the thoughtful post. Let me know if you want to go on a pilgrimage. =)<BR/><BR/>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_TempzinKBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01688754599562966118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357504746865893843.post-60395979048038810852008-05-06T09:26:00.000-05:002008-05-06T09:26:00.000-05:00It makes me feel good about the world and people t...It makes me feel good about the world and people too! I'm excited to be in physical contact... to experience un-media-mediated interaction. It really is a risk. Who knows if I'll be annoyed by someone, or laugh at a joke, or share in grief... Face to face is scary/awesome/worth it. I've been thinking about these questions of space, neighborhood and community, and I really think that it has to be a little bit planned, formed, and thoughtful. Trying to get involved in some different ways......its not you, its your narrativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610784084724348322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357504746865893843.post-22023489033577222302008-05-06T01:51:00.000-05:002008-05-06T01:51:00.000-05:00That's pretty much amazing....as I type on my comp...That's pretty much amazing....as I type on my computer in a dark dorm room, completely removed from any actual contact with the world. But really I love reading and hearing things like that, it makes me feel good about the world and people for some reason.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02730990220429306889noreply@blogger.com