Obligation or opportunity.
Pessimism or possibility.
Guilt or gratitude.
When given the choice, give the person or the moment wings.
Ashton.Gustafson
Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.
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Questions
As long as you have questions, you’ll be on the path of fulfillment. Questions keep us child-like.
The more I’m with my children the more I’m enthralled and longing to be recruited into their classes they are unknowingly teaching. “Why?”, “Can I color?”, and “Where’s the rainbow?” are the questions they’re wrestling with now.
If we are honest, we’re still asking the same questions as well.
May we never lose the courage to ask.
Echoes
I’m currently going back through my favorite books I’ve ever read to finish out 2014.
I started thoroughly reading in 2010, and my life has never been the same.
Rereading is like an echo for the eyes.
As of today, here’s my top 10.
1). A Million Miles In A Thousand Years
3). Linchpin
5). The One Thing
6). Mastering The Rockefeller Habits
7). The War of Art
8). Daring Greatly
9). Start With Why
10). Unlimited Power
Where’s your lean?
Presence?
Or
Production?
With the screen in your hand, on your lap, or atop your desk, there is no greater question to ponder for our days.
The Libraries
That place in your chest that holds countless experiences, failures, successes, triumphs, and journeys…that place is a library. These are pages worth revisiting as long as the memory provides momentum, not drag, into your music.
The group that knows you. The group that is is for you. The cast of characters constantly pushing you towards a better story…they are a library and a source to keep you centered in your story.
There’s a forest leaned up against a mountain with a stream gently running through it. Walking through the trees you walk through a library. Standing atop the mountain you have library beneath you. And in the river is a library where answers are flowing over billions of questions sunk as rocks on the bottom. You can skip a rock or pause to see your reflection. What will you choose? Joy or joy?
The old-school library is a real place too, still. Billions of pages, asleep on the shelves, waiting to be thumbed through. With all of the wisdom in the world recorded and printed thus far, it’s hard to believe such a place is rarely frequented by most. Whimsical bravery is what sends one to walk into such a place. What happens if you find out what you didn’t know?
And then there’s Google. The library and, conveniently, the librarian in your pocket. One click and the unconnected is connected.
Alas, What’s To Be Written > What Has Been Written. That’s what you should do when you leave your libraries.
Ashton.Gustafson 