I’m working on a few new projects. A few, because I am a passionate and impatient human being who wants to do a lot and a bit of everything, so every day I am learning new lessons about patience and presence, but there is a strong life force inside of me, that for a long time I tried to suppress (for reasons I won’t go into right now). I’m refusing to do that now. I want my life force to express itself fully and strongly, and for it to become a force in this world and not just a numinous light inside of me.
We all deserve to impress upon this world the imprints of our life force!
(The other day in a discussion about ghosts with my friends, we talked of ghosts being possibly just leftover energy by the living, like imprints left behind on a pillow after we freshly get out of bed. There is so much we don’t know about everything!)
One of these projects is about creating a “school” for people who dream of building a better world. What can a school be? Who can teach? Who can learn? The keyword is “can”. “Can” is a hopeful attitude, and about walking up to a wall and searching it for a door, a way to get out of the room we’re currently in, no matter how large it might seem.
This school is called OTHERWISE. It is a school for the new world. After all, a new world requires new ways of being and learning. This project will be both a response to the world we currently live in and a love letter to the human spirit – its curiosity, openness, grit, empathy, imagination.
In order to create this school, I’ve been going around talking and listening to people and learning from them. I realised I only know enough to take about two steps forward. I am therefore fully relying on the second step to take me to the third, and the third to the fourth, etc etc. That’s how most things get built no? Or least this seems to be the only way I know how to build…
I am also building a small, a tiny publisher born out of the library. It shall be called Casual Poet Press. I’m excited about this project because I’ve always wanted to be a publisher, but will I enjoy being a publisher? That’s something I will have to find out. Failure is always an option.
So that’s a quick update. How are you? Are you working on any cool projects?