NIC ASKEW » VERY SHORT WORDS

EXIT STAGE LEFT

nicaskew — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:00:14 +0000

Last week, as I stepped off a stage in DC, someone approached and said ‘Thank you for the films.
It’s not everyday that you’re faced with truth.’

‘Yes it is’, I replied without thought.

And now I can’t stop wondering about the implication of those three words.

[SPEAKING STUFF HERE]

SUPERIORITY AND HUMILITY

nicaskew — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:41:32 +0000

‘Perhaps it’s our superiority that keeps us from our own life. And our capacity for humility
that leads us to it.’ / from Nic’s Soul Biography [SIZE DOESN'T MATTER]

STUDENT OF IMAGINATION

nicaskew — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:00:17 +0000

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‘I have only really ever been a student of my own imagination.’

I sent this reply to someone who asked if i was a follower of ‘…’ .
I am often asked if I’m a follower of ‘this, or that’.

FAITH

nicaskew — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:58:07 +0000

‘there comes a point when no other word makes sense, and all you are left with is faith.’

A PART OF IT ALL

nicaskew — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:29:38 +0000

‘To feel a part of it all, and not a part from it all. That seems to be the challenge
of this rather strange and beautiful life.’

spinning in the depths of a film

nicaskew — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:25:07 +0000

‘… spinning in the depths of a film. lost, with no need to be found.’ Perhaps even, this is the possibility for a life.

‘… spinning in the depths of life. lost, with no need to be found.’

‘space’

nicaskew — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:05:45 +0000

‘personal responsibility’

nicaskew — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:59:24 +0000

I heard a discussion on the radio.

Debating the possible solutions for health care in the USA. The debaters were well qualified, intelligent, passionate and knew the facts.

But no one mentioned the personal responsibility that each of us hold for our own health. Not one, not even once.

I wondered whether just one of the many roles for leadership is to point us back the ultimate responsibility each & everyone of us holds. For all aspects of the experience of our own lives.
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ADDENDUM following a host of comments on FACEBOOK.

‘… without personal responsibility the opportunity to experience ‘a unique life’ might die, but without compassion the opportunity to experience the ‘sum of us all’ will die. And the ‘sum of us all’ is perhaps the point.’

Like everything, ‘it is’ and ‘it isn’t’.

Yet another uncomfortable path for leadership to find its way along. In the dark.

A path that can’t hope to make any sense.

‘belaboured prosperity’

nicaskew — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:08:53 +0000

When exactly did prosperity, in all its many guises, become such an effort?

Prosperity in the natural world doesn’t appear to be so belaboured.

So perhaps we missed the point entirely.

‘and you lived happily ever after’

nicaskew — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:00:41 +0000

‘and you lived happily ever after’

I saw this sign above Louise Erdich’s book shop in a sleepy backwater close to downtown Minneapolis.

And I wondered what it might actually mean, for the experience of my life, ‘… and i lived happily ever after.’

And then I wondered what it might mean for you. Beyond the usual turreted castle, and fast white horse.