http://www.jonathanlipps.com/blog/2007/09/the-flood/ Creativity && Integration Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:06:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.jonathanlipps.com/blog/2007/09/the-flood/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Jonathan Lipps Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:14:02 +0000 http://www.jonathanlipps.com/blog/?p=378#comment-335 I just noticed that, totally unintentionally, this poem has 40 lines (plus one for the conclusion). Wow. I just noticed that, totally unintentionally, this poem has 40 lines (plus one for the conclusion). Wow.

]]> http://www.jonathanlipps.com/blog/2007/09/the-flood/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Michael ONeil Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:14:02 +0000 http://www.jonathanlipps.com/blog/?p=378#comment-336 Took me a few times reading it, but I think I follow. Is a central theme the idea that we often enter into these messy, messed up things about our environments - thinking we are not valuable unless we speak or do something loudly enough to be applauded, and subsequently becoming untrue to ourselves and losing our identity in the process - without realizing that we are offered a choice otherwise, that we are valued even when we are still, and that in fact that we and the world were designed for something much more like the still than like the flood? Took me a few times reading it, but I think I follow. Is a central theme the idea that we often enter into these messy, messed up things about our environments – thinking we are not valuable unless we speak or do something loudly enough to be applauded, and subsequently becoming untrue to ourselves and losing our identity in the process – without realizing that we are offered a choice otherwise, that we are valued even when we are still, and that in fact that we and the world were designed for something much more like the still than like the flood?

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