Is the stuff we send to each other helpful?

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I don't want to send you the wrong message. I love to receive cool, deep, profound and thoughtful, even hot-to-touch tidbits to challenge and expand my world-view but with that, or through that, I need real connection most of all, but what do I mean by connection? We all mean different things by connection. It would be out of character for me to send you a New Year's plate of brownies, and, all my friends know not to send me brownies! But, when you read this (all these earnest words), you might conclude that this is Gary Lindorff, trying to connect. This is my version of the plate of brownies.

Your connection, your plate of brownies might be different, but for me, whatever it is (and sometimes from certain very special people, connection can actually assume the form of a Christmas card with a few heart-felt sentences!) . . . Your connection could be a response to something I sent to you, so in connecting there is the potential for something being co-created between our minds and hearts and souls.

Even when we are reading something that ie, a friend sent, that someone else wrote or posted -- some thinker or writer out there in the Noosphere (Teilhard Chardin, The Future of Man) ) . . . some thought that is worthy of diving into, that by itself , profound as it might be, can be trumped by how I am feeling today, . . . by my own flawed but inescapable experience of waking up to another day and having to figure out what to do with the next 12-14 hours. So you need to know, if you value your connection with me, that I, personally, am spending a lot of my time and energy just trying to process my experience. Is what you are sending going to help with that in some way, shape or form? Are you sending it to me, or just sending it? Do you really think I might want to read it or is it just something that someone sent you, like a hot-potato? What would you like me to do with it? Treat it like an interesting stone to turn in my hand and marvel at?

Think of articles or poems or webinars as keys to certain chakras. The higher, the giddier, the more speculative the more like a spire held up by guy-wires, or an exotic bird almost too high to see, less like a medieval round tower that, when you climb it, feels like the Earth itself is holding you up, and this puts me in awe of the builders.

Imagine a piece of writing as an architecture. What kind of building would it make? Have you given any thought to whether it is safe to explore? Smart to explore? (Is there a minotaur lurking somewhere?) Am I going to get lost? How might this help me along the way to figuring out who I am, what am I doing and where am I going?

My last thought is, who is sending this? Does this help me, even slightly, add to what I know about this person (the sender) in terms of who they are, what they are doing and where they are going?