Welcome and Intro Thoughts
Happy Friday, friends!
I appreciate everyone of you who has followed me over from By My Reckoning—I hope you find content here that interests or inspires you. If it does and you’re inclined, please share this blog with others who you think might enjoy it.
As I said in my announcement on BMR, I’m going to use Heart of Curiosity as an informal space to share the thoughts kicking around my brain, some (many? all?) of which may strike you as random or out-of-the-blue, so as a heads-up let me just say that much of my thinking is inspired by the content I read, watch, or listen to. Most of it ties together into a theme of Our Changing Times, were I to try to label it under a single banner.
Actually, another way to think about it is that I reflect…some might say ruminate…a lot on the issues of life and the world that pertain to our personal and societal health, be that spiritual, psychological, cultural, or physical. So this is going to be a kind of holistic blog at its heart. I plan to cover a lot of territory, topically speaking.
Another theme I imagine will become glaringly apparent is the abiding tension I experience between my instinctual conservatism—the protective desire to preserve the values, attitudes, perspective, and traditions that I believe have provided our culture stability and cohesion—and my desire to be liberal-minded and tolerant of others’ experiences of being and seeing in the world. I want to be spiritually grounded in open-hearted love for the neighbor, in that expansive embrace of the variableness of lives—their challenges and messiness, satisfactions and hopes, hardships and heartaches, triumphs and joys. I want to wholeheartedly let go and let God, to relax and trust . . . and yet not slide into such laissez faire thinking that I lose the will to speak and stand for what is true and truly good.
As you can see, it’s not hard to tie myself in knots. Hence this blog.
Which brings me to my last point for today. I’m hoping this will not only be a place for me to think out loud but to hear from you readers whatever ideas, feedback, or thought-streams my musings might prompt. I would love to have this become a conversational space…a salon of sorts…and not just a screen where I scribble into the void. So please do not hesitate to engage (need I even say respectfully?), even—especially!—if it is to question or challenge something I’ve said. Our greatest gift to one another is to share our hearts and minds and to learn and grow from the experience, so please consider yourselves permanently invited to discuss and ponder aloud. Please and thank you!
P.S. For those of you who aren’t squeamish and are interested to see how quickly my finger has healed (I’m typing this post without a bandage), scroll down past the Share and Subscribe buttons to see Then and Now photos of my injury. I went straight to high potency homeopathy to treat it:
Hypericum for the pain (which it immediately managed such that I never needed Tylenol),
Calendula for antiseptic and skin healing properties,
and a dose of Arnica for the general trauma of the injury.
Having Xeroform bandages in my first aid kit from the last time I sliced off a piece of my finger was also a gigantic help. The initial photos were taken 6-7 hours after the cut, when the bleeding had stopped. The “Now” pics were taken today, 6 days later.
DANGER ZONE IF YOU DON’T LIKE RAW FINGER FOOTAGE . . . FINGERAGE?
Wonderfully, there was no pain yet a lot of gain—homeopathy for healing and the win!
Take care of that finger! I’m glad you’re on the mend.
Glad to hear you healed up, Leah. Good luck and "scribble" away...!
P.S. I darn near sliced off a hunk of thumb with one of those mandolins. The hateful, wicked contraption was banned forever!