Antifragile

Forest School - another awesome day

Yesterday, in the mental health seminar, they were talking about this term Salutogenesis. It was interesting - the importance of sense making, manageability and comprehensibility. Steiner education has always been that for me - it taps into a larger and wider sense of being and understanding and you do not have to go down the path of a supreme being - in our curriculum we celebrate inherently the entire gamut of human history and we are able to give ourselves this wonderful sense of being - it is very special really...

We are so lucky.

That is one of the many reasons our curriculum is so special - we inherently recognise this wonder of being a human in a world which can be so unkind.

A world which is very hard work. We are born into difficulty...

Yesterday I started looking at Atlantis again and I realised that is a really good start. I have good bones there and can build on it. Although as I was running I thought I could have chapters divided along the lines of the 12 houses. I also thought that I need to have a board where I could place all the elements of the story. 

I love Sangita. She is a mixture of the confidence and the fragility of the 20 something. It is a good start. A good one, really. Also, I find that, like running, once I start writing it just comes. I don't need to push on the door too hard. I wonder if I did it everyday, the discipline of it everyday, would it be hard? I really don't think so. It is like when I do accounts a question of sitting down and just doing it.

My entire body is in incredible pain with the running mostly. But those fecking joints are also something else. Sitting down for too long is hard hard work.

But I did everything I was supposed to do yesterday. It felt awesome but also exhausting. But it will be ok. It is a question of building things up bit by bit.

Today after school it is going to be all about MONEY. Getting all that sorted finally.

If life has no meaning... I did find it very hard to live without a spiritual dimension. I realised that. The thing though with just straightforward religion, as it, straight from the bottle, is that for some unknown reason it tends to breed this tribalism and jingoism. And a kind of enthusiasm which is sort of - fragile. Or if it is not fragile, it is born of fragility. A kind of unquestioningness which results in a blindness. Christianity is also a weird one. I know that Christ is love, etc but I also know that it comes preloaded with a monotheistic Chosen Ones arrogance - this God is the best God - and then the colonialism which resulted in the obliteration of other religions - arrogance breeds intolerance. 

I also find it reprehensible that it is also responsible for many people converting to it - this trying to get in with the 'it' crowd. Yes, convert if you must, but not because you have nothing better to be doing. The courage of convictions is a real thing.

To wit, organised religion is just awful. The Christian community though is a different kettle of fish. It is semi organised and thoughtful and it contradicts and resists organised religion.

And I think this of ALL organised religion - so it's not just Christianity I give a hard time. Assholes be found everywhere. Right. Another 15 minutes and then Atlantis.