Every once in a while, I feel the call, or invitation to nothingness. It’s a hard one to explain, but thankfully others have felt this call too. The fact that others have felt this call gives me some comfort that I’m not crazy. One of my favourite quotes from Thomas Merton who talks about his feeling of obligation to nothingness…

“So perhaps I have an obligation to preserve the stillness, the silence, the poverty, the virginal point of pure nothingness which is at the center of all other loves. I attempt to cultivate this plant without contempt in the middle of the night and water it with psalms and prophecies in silence.” ~ Thomas Merton

Musings about memes…

I’m on a jog walk jog right now and almost entire time I’ve been thinking about the meme culture that we live in. Even on the trail that I’m on there are rocks painted with slogans. “Just begin,” “love,” “stay positive.” I guess it has some value, but for today at least I really want my trail to be a blank slate. A place where it’s just me and the trees, and wildlife, and other people enjoying nature on bikes, walking their dogs, hiking, jogging whatever… without slogans or memes. Give me a blank slate and let nature speak.