Twenty questions*
* A workshop exercise we used to use to help people get past the superficial answers, only the question was “who am I”. This “Twenty Questions” comes from the concern of friends and family. What do I say…..
How are you? I don’t know
How are you? Here. No that’s good, really.
How are you? Thinking
How are you? Getting things done
How are you? Feeling supported
How are you? Grateful, I had him for so long
How are you? Noticing the silence
How are you? Getting things done
How are you? Grateful for my friends
How are you? Wondering how the bed got sooo big
How are you? Trying to remember how to buy food for one
How are you? I just am
How are you? I don’t know, sad
How are you? Weeding the garden
How are you? My back hurts
How are you? Trying to sleep through the night
How are you? Peaceful
How are you? Wanting to make sure others’ needs are met
How are you? Waiting for death certificates
How are you? It’s just the beginning, I don’t know
The journey continues….I feel supported, loved. I am blessed!
I thought asking “How’s it going?” was an easier question, but I realized not a better one. “How are you?” keeps you anchored in self awareness. I just had to accept there was no great, one, profound answer. Acceptance….
Joseph would say it’s going like it’s going. Anyway, we are more concerned about how you are as you are going with it. You are my teacher and mentor.
Wisdom. Fortitude. Love.
I wake up in the night and think of you.
Sending love.
Yes. Thinking of you often, and loving the openness with which you live and write.
How amazing that you have the capacity to think of me when you are experiencing whatever it is that you are experiencing. I’m grateful for the ways you and Joseph continue to open my mind and heart. Even in his death, you both continue to teach me. You are my Teachers and I’m grateful to be your student. Thank you for your living and for his dying.
How are you comes from my heart to yours. How are you? We are on a great adventure, you and I. We are incorporating all that Joseph and Brett have taught us in their innocence and their love for life! It is a wonderful and interesting journey to stay present in the moment, accept what is within and without and release it for the next present. I pray for your wellbeing and for your ease as well as for your peace in your soul daily. I do love you very much!!! My chimes are ringing to your chimes.