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  I wake at about 4 or 5 oclock.   Make tea,  clear the space on the Table and follow a trail of reading and looking….read any comments to the blog of the night before,  read any posts on other blogs,  sometimes comment then,  but most times just think.  then  news and any related articles.   A second tea and usually some writing in the stenographer's notebook.    And then for a while now,  at least since last spring,   i often go lie back down and fall asleep for  usually about 20 minutes.   Very often,  as i become awake,   some surprisingly clarity appears,   or some surprisingly interesting slant to some ongoing  concern.   the third tea and i sit and  entertain those things,  letting them wander as they will.   often writing things down.   then…meditate for as long as happens.   The day begins.     Those 20 minutes of re~sleep have been very surprisingly usefull.   Yesterday what came was the "fact"  that there are no Answers to those Hard Questions….OR….there are MANY answers depending on how the questions are asked.   And there was also acceptance that i will most likely continue to be caught in the questioning as life goes.  And the questions will continue to become more pointed,   more spare,  more direct.   It's how i am.    And how that came yesterday morning was………That knowing that the questions will remain .   and it was "said" ….Why not just let them live?   Let the questions just be Alive?   Changing/moving/asking themselves.   Alive. 

Just hold them in the palm of your hand.

And i received the image of those questions there,  like how so small salamanders or newts are,  so weightless,  soft,  almost unbelievable in their slight impression of movement and aliveness.    To let the questions be like that.   Light,  and given to just the asking that would help me know more as i live.   To not make them heavy with demand.      

and then….what came next….i had to smile.  Next,  the thought was:   make them a little pouch.   to sleep in as you  work your days.   Make them a little pouch.   

 

 

 

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23 responses to “those questions”

  1. jude Avatar

    i once imagined a cloth covered in question marks, and then sleeping beneath the questions.
    I thought they were real until i looked closer.

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    I just sent you a picture of a tiny anole that climbed on our back door … so yes, I thought yours were real, too …
    and a pouch … this has been said before … so I went searching and found this … https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2019/07/my-entry-28.html

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    “Questions are beginnings
    answers are ends
    I’ll hold close to the questions
    and make them my friends”
    The Letter Q © Rod Morgan 2010 An illuminated Book of Cats

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  4. Deb G Avatar

    I don’t think all questions are meant to have answers. Some we just have to live with…

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  5. maria Avatar
    maria

    YOU are a friend of SAskia , you almost paint like her

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  6. maria Avatar
    maria

    now after reading the blog words/thoughts
    questions
    How
    who
    where from ( the person the spirit the soul ?)
    Do you remember ? … catchs (?)a falling star , put them in your pocket save them for a rainy day
    ask the question , put those in your pocket lay them under your sleep pillow and dream the answer

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  7. CatherinE Avatar

    What a beautiful way to describe questions – as salamanders in the hand. I could feel their tiny footfalls as I looked at the photo. And I enjoyed the description of your mornings, and the extra little sleep – I’ve been doing that recently and it’s always surprising how rested I feel after that extra bit.

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  8. Faith Avatar

    Your 20-minute resleep reminded me. When I was in college and had to turn in a creative writing, I would prepare my writing table while thinking about what to write and then take an intentional nap. When I woke, it would all be there (in my head, from a dream) waiting to be written.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    i wish they were real

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    love. Love your anole. they are so bold and curious

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    letterQ. Rod Morgan.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    that’s what Jane Goodall said…remember?

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is a loving compliment to me

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    where…it’s the biggest Wonder

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love that you are doing this too, the Little Sleep
    just love this

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    Yes….there. it’s all there. Learning the tools to
    let it come through, the little Sleep

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  17. Nancy Avatar

    “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke

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  18. Deb G Avatar

    I didn’t. 🙂 I’ve always felt this way so I think it just passed by with a nod of acknowledgment. I really loved that interview…

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  19. Suzanna Avatar
    Suzanna

    I love the little salamanders. It’s as if they are deciding on a new alphabet.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    Suzanna!, Hello!….
    a new alphabet…glyphs…for a new way to say things….
    to say new things

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    you would not be able to live them
    this, i think, is TRUTH

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  22. Nancy Avatar

    I do so love this quote. It got me through some very hard times, more questions than answers. I still return to it often.

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  23. Suzanna Avatar
    Suzanna

    ❤️ yes! to make new words to ask new questions with! 💡🦎

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