tiffle: to potter aimlessly in a landscape Suffolk*
Robert Macfarlane

interstice (n) an intervening space, especially a very small one.

Perhaps the best we can do is to help people get to where they’ve wanted to go all along.**
Seth Godin

As I tiffle through the interstices of people’s existence and being,
Aiming to notice what even they perhaps have not seen
or noticed the significance of – hoping to uncover something that
deeply resonates and must be brought to the light of their ordinary world;^
Simply drop me a line if you want to go-a-tiffling.

Our work is to show we have been breathed upon – to show it, give it out, sing it out, to live out in the topside world what we have received through our sudden knowings, from body, from dreams and journeys of all sorts.^^

*Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks;
**Seth Godin’s This Is Strategy;
^The ordinary world (Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ “topside world”) is our everyday life, the special world is where we discover the deep wonders and truths about ourselves – the worlds uncovered in traditional myths;
^^Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With the Wolves.

Creativity doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.*
Seth Godin

Refuse almost everything. Do almost nothing. But the things you do, do them all the way.**
Derek Sivers

It’s important to first learn
the domain, the field, the system, and we may start out
copying a lot, yet
the aim isn’t to replicate but to
bring something new – our peculiar rhyme – and to
lean into this.

That’s what our art requires of us. We show up and do it anyway, not because someone asked us but because our persistent heart tells us to.^

*Seth Godin’s The Practice;
**Derek Sivers’ Hell Yeah or No;
^Bernadette Jiwa’s The Story of Telling blog: Doing the Work Anyway.

You must have a place to which you can go, in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not know what your owe anyone or what anyone owes you. You must have a place you can go to where you do not know what your work is or who you work for, where you do not know who you are married to or who your children are.*
Joseph Campbell

You can’t step in the same river twice, because your footprint the first time turned the river into a different river. And it changed you as well.**
Seth Godin

Leave your ordinary world awhile, and
enter your special sphere,
Be lost with yourself, less selfish
with all you carry, to
be restored to yourself, and find you are
unable to remain the same.

*David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
**Seth Godin’s This is Strategy.

Thirty years from now, therapy is going to centre on what is going well and why.*
Katherine Morgan Scafler

No one is ever ready until they start. Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.**
Chris Fontana

How old will you be if you wait thirty years to
be able to do what you can do today?

There may not be thirty more years of wisdom to accrue-
Wisdom grows when we start.

You may not believe yourself ready for
the things that bring you to your edge, your truest you.

But these already lie within you,^ the means by which you
embrace and navigate the effort, change, risk, and journeying.

*Katherine Morgan Scafler’s The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control;
**Jean Houston’s The Wizard of Us;
^Dreamwhispering is all about uncovering the things that help you start; drop me a line to find out more.

The stories of gods or heroes descending into the underworld, threading through labyrinths and fighting with monsters, brought to light the mysterious workings of the psyche, showing people how to cope with their own interior crises.*
Karen Armstrong

Mythological images are the images by which consciousness is put in touch with unconsciousness. That’s what they are. When you don’t have your mythological images, or when your consciousness rejects them for some reason or other, you are out of touch with your own deepest part.**
Joseph Campbell

The next time
I find myself awake in
the long darkness of the night,
Wading through and unable to resist
all the difficult stuff,
I am going to reimagine it within
my myth^ – dark caves to navigate with
burning torches, fearsome creatures to be
provided with form to shrink them – because
a myth is not only about the enjoyable stuff,
It also succours our wellbeing, enabling us to be
agents rather than victims.

*Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth;
**Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss;
^The megamyths of history may not serve us as they did our forebears, but they can still inform our more personal myths so necessary for today. Such a myth requires the metaphysical/mystical, cosmological, sociological, and pedagogical. And if our myths are not to our liking, or are not working, we can change them.

Surprise is the great enabler of seeing.*
Alan Jacobs

*Alan Jacob’s Snakes and Ladders blog: Architectural Thoughts.

Enough comes from the inside.*
Ryan Holiday

*Ryan Holiday’s Stillness is the Key.

The best way to achieve freedom is to take responsibility for the actions you’re taking. And the best way to be clear that you’re taking responsibility is to highlight the externalities and own them.*
Seth Godin

*Seth Godin’s blog: Embracing externalities.

Perhaps most awe-inspiring of all, our brain allows us to imagine.*
Jonah Paquette

*Jonah Paquette’s Awestruck.

rules only make sense in the service of love*
Brian McLaren

*Brian McLaren’s Faith After Doubt.