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Monday, July 13, 2009
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No emails going out from here
No checking facebook/U2.com/Greenbelt/Blogs and other significant surfing.
Only checking Rugby League, the Saints won again, and humans I am concerned about.
I have been busy and will be today but may get to the keys tonight/Monday.
Have you heard of a recording artiste called Joy Orbison?
If, in ten years time, you found some reflective notes of your own - about the last day - what would be noteworthy?
Have you kissed a frog recently? You know what happens when you kiss frogs don't you?
How about deliberately considering it - doing it today?
My body feels like it has been in a fifteen foot diameter globe and rolled down a hill - fast.
There is a good Essential Mix on BBC Radio iPlayer - only for the next 5 days.
Do you remember Billy Paul and a song called 'Me and Mrs Jones'?
There is a new album or film out about Billy Paul and I am interested.
Why does my scanner decide not to work some days?
I am naked under my clothes.
What have you learned in the last day?
We leave Wilson Mansions to live in Wilson Mini-Mansions on August 19th.
Do you realize you are beautiful?
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
L5 (have you heard of it - if you know L5). Well I am away with the L5 group on this our 29th year of L5ing
Friday, July 10, 2009
Sometimes I am submerged, usually all good, and I don't communicate well/much.
Then I come back with more stories and more reflections.
Had two bright ideas for new books today.
Exciting.
They will be two of a Pipology Series.
All I need to do is -
stinking deliver.
Keep clicking
I appreciate you being here.
You are beautiful - do you know that?
Feel that?
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I just love all this::
Faith, wherever it develops into hope,
causes not rest but unrest,
not patience but impatience.
It does not calm the unquiet heart,
but is itself the unquiet heart in man.
-- Posted from Pip's iPhone
You are beautiful.
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causes not rest but unrest,
not patience but impatience.
It does not calm the unquiet heart,
but is itself the unquiet heart in man.
-- Posted from Pip's iPhone
You are beautiful.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
When you beautify your mind, you beautify your world. You learn to see differently. In what seemed like dead situations, secret possibilities and invitations begin to open before you. In old suffering that held you long paralysed, you find new keys. When your mind awakens, your life comes alive and the creative adventure of your soul takes off. Passion and compassion become your new companions. As St. Iraneus said in the 2nd Century: The glory of God is the human person fully alive.
Wilson Mansions Garden.At the beginning - mid season - see the changes - the colours - the snow ............ we have been here for 22 years and now we are on our bike.
A date is fixed for you to stand outside with handkerchief to the eyes - pretending to cry as we pack and go. (Well the packing is under way - for stinking weeks).
The date we go is 19th August 2009.
One week before Greenbelt (I scream at this point)
Mini-Mansions here we come .....................
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A Family picture from the old days.
I am eating Christmas Dinner here.
L to R::
Pat, Don (one of my brothers, Auntie Mary (the only pic of here I have), Philip, ME and Steven.
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Anyone remember this poster in our attic hand designed by
Willie Williams?
It starred in a famous TTV movie.
-- Posted from Pip's iPhone
You are beautiful.
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No late night sips of Cointreau for me these past weeks.
It is Peppermint tea Pip from early morning until late night.
I love it.
I wonder how you are before I slip into stepping down the road of reflection and un-peeling the Onion called Pip Wilson. I don't know what is going in here (thumps his chest) but there is lots. I don't know what to click but
what I start leads to something which surprises me and feeds my soul.
GO::
I posted my status on facebook today::
'We can see a persons behaviour but cannot see their experience.'
This helps me to be reminded that I must not be drawn-in by behaviour, but see beyond behaviour.
My experience with
1:: the most violent
2:: the most obnoxious
3:: the most scary humans
tells me that they are scared of so much in their lives and, the 1/ 2 /3 examples above, are just armour plating.
We get distracted by behaviour and
don't see
beyond the behaviour
to see why
the behaviour.
Behaviour is at both ends of the spectrum of life::
A:: Human Clean
and
Z:: Human Violent.
All driven by their hidden interior.
And here we are just judging the behaviour and not seeing the hurting human inside.
But between the A and the Z
we reside.
I reside just stumbling through with eyes that see but don't really see.
Ears that hear - but don't really.
Love that only is expressed openly with those who are in our social strata.
Those we like.
How can we love the unlovely?
How can we take one step towards a human who we instinctively wish to step away from.
It is not bad breath we are scared of - it is behaviour.
And, probably, those same persons have experience, most humans in their lives, -
STEPPING AWAY.
Sadly it has also, so often, been their parents too.
Can you imagine what it feels like to experience this all your life?
We need more lovers ...........................
Obama went to Russia earlier this week.
He is stepping outside his comfort zones to connect with those who who most humans in the US, and the western world, would consider to have bad breath. He is driven by a mission not personal feelings.
It reminds me of a typical dining room at a YMCA hostel. Often full of beautiful humans who have needs and have experienced rejection.
Where do you sit when you turn from the cafeteria tray slide and face the room?
Alone?
With humans you know?
With those on the rowdy table?
With the silently alone human who you know never joins in a conversation?
The one where bad vibes resides following a recent conflict?
I can tell which table Obama will sit on - can you?
Do you?
Where do you sit?
If you transpose this to your own context::
own street
own community
own workplace
own friendship group, yes even in a group there is the chosen ones and ..........
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5 Words to describe my life at the moment.
Only words.
You can dig into them and, from your own experience of life, read deeper into them.
Pip::
Removals
Mission
Fog
Faith
Believe.
How about you clicking this way and I will post them in a blog?
The experience for you will be like undressing -
undressing the soul.
Derek sends me 5 - (which has stimulated me to dribble mine out for you).
Derek::
listening
becoming (though not always aware of this)
frustrated
loved
wondering
.......... and you?
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My beautiful, I feel shame calling him a friend, yet he was ....... and always will be,
John O Donohue, now departed from us physically, puts it like this::
'So often we build prisons for ourselves.
We blame others for our confines,
but it us who constrict ourselves all along.
Most of the walls in our lives we build ourselves.
But sometimes,
just once in a while,
we get a glimpse of the infinity of the universe and know that God is at work.
That's when we must choose to stay in the prison or grasp the risk'
John Donaghue
from 'Anam Cara'
Dance like no-one is watching
Sing like no-one is listening
and
Love like you have never been hurt.
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
I am thinking about this MJ stuff.
Long ago I left behind this emotional stuff.
You may know I am always writing about this emotional stuff.
Emotional intelligence stuff.
I have left behind the lock-in to emotional responses which is not thought out.
I cannot be just emotional.
I feel emotions deeply.
I want to and I do
but I need to think too.
There is something stirring in me to understand the massive outpouring of emotions, in the western world, about the death of Michael Jackson.
It was similar when Diana died.
There seems to be a great need in the world to be cathartic.
To be outspoken and, in some cases, over-the-top with words and tears.
I wonder if humans cannot do this in everyday life
so they do it on a special occasion?
I am puzzled why.
There has been a surge of celeb interest in the UK.
Fed by the paparazzi, the tabloids and their glossy magazine relatives.
On Sunday I was alongside a number of artistes at the Wireless festival.
The top of the bill, Kanye West, was on stage and there was so many humans
just wanting to get close to 'celebs' rather than watch a fab concert.
These celeb fixations are one way relationships.
Hair brushed, PR presented perfection.
No relationship other than a commercial one.
Many feel they know the celebrity person.
Do you know Michael Jackson?
Did you know Lady Di?
I believe
both were beautiful humans
both beautiful imperfection.
Just like me and you .......
*picture is Chipmunk at the Wireless Festival with a fan*
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
L to R:: Dennis, Pea, Pip, Hank, Gordie.
I was about 18 I think.
Parr, St Helens, Lancashire
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Distractionville.
Due to my strange lifestyle of change, I am reflecting on preoccupation's and distractions.
I am aware that these can affect relationships through lack of listening, meaning only hearing - not listening and understanding.
I am aware that I am not as active in relationships. Delaying meeting up until the new mini-mansions are a reality.
I need relationships as a major element in my health and well being - becoming.
"Relationships are the source of our growth as persons.I love how relationships feed the soul alongside::
There must be at least one person with whom he or she is totally open and feels totally safe at the same time"
Paul Tournier
movies we see
books we read
magazines we flick
discussions reflect on
observations we study
prayers we stumble into
smiles we exchange
eyes we flirt with
It seems as if these are like power-cables underground from these sources and other such surges and stimulants. They gush from beneath the ground right into our soul. We seem always to be connected to these power cables as we experience with wireless-wi fi.
Those of us who believe in a spiritual source can connect to all this. We want to be constantly on-line. Want to be in touch with the divine server. He who is greatest is servant of all
If we miss out on having numerous relationships we miss a major element of food for the soul.
I need soul food.
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