Socrates famously said (according to Plato), “The un-examined life is not worth living.” Too true.
All of my great teachers and mentors where ponderers of life. They were artists. Pondering life is essentially what an artist does whether their pondering shows up as a painting, play, dance, or musical composition.
For me, the best time and place to ponder is while looking into a starry sky. There is no greater perspective-giver than infinity. Once, while sitting on the porch at the ranch with Tom, watching the stars emerge, sipping wine, he said, “You could never paint that.”
I said, “I wouldn’t even try!”
“He smiled, “Sure you would. What else is there?”
read Kerri’s blog post about PONDERING LIFE
pondering life is a very useful thing to do ©️ 2016 david robinson & kerri sherwood
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