Category Archives: Knowing
I Just Don’t Know
One of the greatest, and possibly most profound, advantages of keeping a journal is that it is the one secure place where one can openly admit that one simply doesn’t know. Why is that the hardest thing to do? To just … Continue reading
Posted in Balance, Choice, Individuation, Journal Writing, Knowing, Life, questions, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged answers, belonging, fine line, fool, foolish, giving, group, human psyche, independence vs dependence, primary need, private existence, public acceptance, public vs private, questons, tiptoeing
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Arbitrarily Yours
I have spent over a month here, encouraging any and all to participate in keeping a journal. I have tried my best to reveal many of the most basic advantages in doing such a thing, often using my own experience … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, Censors, Journal Writing, Knowing, learning process, marking territory, rules, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged boundaries, chaos, comfort, disorder, excuses, human nature, journal vs blog, justifications, marking territory, personal space, private vs public, rationalizations, rules, wild creature
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That Old Telephone Game
We used to play it all the time. We’d all sit in a circle. One person would begin by whispering in the ear of the person next to her. Just a few phrases, maybe a fact or two. Then that … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, associations, Connections, enlightenment, Inner Voices, Journal Writing, Knowing, Memory, Selective, Subjectivity, Time, Uncategorized
Tagged circle, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, different voices, distorted memory, honesty, Memory, psyche, relationships, source material, surprise at outcome, telephone game, tone, verbiage, whispers, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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The Learning Process
Have you ever thought, or said aloud, “Well, I thought I knew that, but obviously I don’t”, or something similar in content? Perhaps you have inadvertently skipped, avoided, or simply never took one of the four steps in the Learning … Continue reading
Posted in Growth, Journal Writing, Knowing, learning process, Self-Awareness, Steps In Learning, Uncategorized
Tagged accomplishments, computer, contacts, continuous and constant, denial, discipline, elephant in the living room, essential, gravy train, habit, impacts, increments, instinctual, issue, journal keeping, layers, learning, learning curve, learning process, levels, life experience, lightbulb, make note, Memory, pen and paper, privacy, steps, subject, topic, understanding, work, writing
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How We Know What We Know
There are two primary ways in which we come to know whatever we know. These two avenues often seem like a two-way highway with occasional entrance and exit ramps where we can rest, maybe even loiter for an hour or … Continue reading
Posted in associations, Choice, Connections, Journal Writing, Knowing, Logic, Objectivity, Self-Awareness, Subjectivity, Uncategorized
Tagged argument, association, back country lane, bridge, Choice, comprehension, detachment, direction, Dreams, feelings, gravel, intersection, Knowing, Life, living, map, Memory, Objective, preference, red and green lights, roadkill, senses, smell, stimulation, Subjective, taste, thoroughfare, thought process, touch, traffic, travel, understanding, writing, wrong turns
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