Passivity is a discipline. In fact, sometimes I think it is the hardest discipline – particularly in a culture like ours. We humans like to DO things. We like to build. We like to invent. We like to build relationships and parse them out when they breakdown. We like to plant and grow and make. We like to talk and write and sing. We like to be masters of our fate, captains of our ships, directors of our plays. We seek, we strive, we fight, we climb mountains simply because the

Passivity is a discipline. In fact, sometimes I think it is the hardest discipline – particularly in a culture like ours. We humans like to DO things. We like to build. We like to invent. We like to build relationships and parse them out when they breakdown. We like to plant and grow and make. We like to talk and write and sing. We like to be masters of our fate, captains of our ships, directors of our plays. We seek, we strive, we fight, we climb mountains simply because the

This is very much what our lives are like.  We don’t start off knowing who we are or how to put the pieces together.  Some people have been given fairly simple projects to put together.  Others seem to have hopelessly complex projects that seem like will never come together to make anything.  Some people get the framework up and decide that they’ve done enough.  Others just sit among the pieces.  But if we stick with it, correct our mistakes and try again, we can build great