just tend to the essence
‘and may your soul calm, console and renew you’
In this somewhat regular letter, sprinkles of my wanderings through philosophy, culture, art and, well, life. An attempt to ease some ruffled spirits, perhaps. Mine, at least. This is me on the internet, this is my website.
Hello everyone,
In this newsletter: a poem, projects - an intermezzo - and a blessing.
First, a poem that I wrote some months ago.
They are quite mysterious things, poems.
How it feels as though they want to be born, as though all I have to do is get out of the way, and just follow along.
Sometimes it’s just one sentence.
During a meditation retreat last summer it was this sentence:
it’s all right
just tend to the essence, Louis
And I thought that was that.
But then, something grew out of that sentence, that essence.
That something is this:
Just tend to the essence
It’s all right just tend to the essence. Tending to the essence all else grows from it and so essence finds form it is the first it will be the last but it is here now unpredictable and precious It teaches us, our narrow minds, to let go forget about it no need to shape no need to mold no way to shape no way to mold just tend to the essence and get out of the way observe follow enjoy all that is flowing forth from essence and know yourself to be part of the unique wonder of true creation -
The Holy Days (and Holy Nights) are upon us; these shortest days of the year, these long nights, this natural time of stillness: it appears as though this period is especially welcoming to bring us closer to essence. Closer to the ineffable, the mysterious, and the experience and (hopefully acceptance) of not knowing. It can be a freeing experience: not wanting, not needing to know anymore, but just to be. How to free oneself for this experience? As André 3000 said: ‘you gotta move out the way, but you gotta work to move out the way.’
So, I’ll move out the way. Just some projects, an intermezzo and a blessing left in this letter.
Some upcoming projects:
English and Dutch:
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Dutch:
Ierland reis: in mei 2024 gaan Matthijs Schouten en ik opnieuw met een bont reisgezelschap op ontdekkingstocht door het gelaagde landschap van the Burren in West-Ierland. Er is nog een aantal plekken vrij. De reis van vorig jaar is vastgelegd in een 5-delige podcast serie door reisgenoot en podcast- en radiomaker Lex Bohlmeijer.
oikos - terug in ons aardse huis: in deze reeks willen we onszelf weer bewust maken van het wonder van de wereld die ons allen draagt. Dit doen we op zes zondagen in 2024 door de verschillende domeinen van ons huis, onze oikos, te beschouwen: de aarde, het water, de plantenwereld, de dierenwereld, de menselijke samenleving en het heelal.
- intermezzo -
In want of some reading during these holy days of stillness? In this intermezzo a summary of my wanderings (in writing) of the past couple of months.
Three blessings: in dance, music and words (or skip to the end of this letter for the blessing in words).
Another blessing then, now in the form of the teachings of that wonderful and beautiful human being called Morrie Schwartz: what we take, we must replenish. It’s only fair.
After a light dance in the darkness, lose yourself in some frivolous thread following from Billie Joel to Enya.
Finally, losing threads in curtains and ceilings, I find my way back in London.
To finish, as promised, a blessing (from the book anam cara, by John O’Donohue):
A blessing
May the light of your soul guide you.
May the light of you soul bless the work
you do with the secret love and
warmth of your heart.
May you see in what you do the beauty
of your own soul.
May the sacredness of your work bring healing,
light and renewal to those who work with you
and to those who see and receive your work.
May your work never weary you.
May it release within you wellsprings of refreshment,
inspiration and excitement.
May you be present in what you do.
May you never become lost in the bland absences.
May the day never burden.
May dawn find you awake and alert,
approaching your new day with dreams,
possibilities and promises.
May evening find you gracious and fulfilled.
May you go into the night blessed, sheltered
and protected.
May your soul calm, console and renew you.
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Thank you for reading, and enjoy the stillness of it all,
Love (and blessings),
from,
Louis
In what the late Saddam Hussein once dubbed “the great Satan,” roughly two-thirds of the United States enlisted military corps is white . . .
The fat, bulbous, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin once confirmed in a 93-2 vote of the U.S. Senate, immediately embarked on a whirlwind media tour of duty, telling the pseudo-secular sycophants in the state-controlled tabloid press and state-controlled television talk show circuit about how the U.S. Army is full of bad racist white men.
Senior Defense Department leaders celebrating yet another Pride Month at the Pentagon sounding the alarm about the rising number of state laws they say target the LGBTQ+ community, warned the trend is hurting the feelings of the armed forces . . . “LGBTQ plus and other diverse communities are under attack, just because they are different. Hate for hate’s sake,” said Gil Cisneros, the Pentagon’s undersecretary for personnel and readiness, who also serves as DoD’s chief diversity and inclusion officer.
And now the U.S. Army is doing ads begging for more young white males?
What happened?
Even with a full-on declaration of war from Congress, and even if Gavin Newsome could be cheated into the Oval Office by ZOG somehow, while Globohomo diversity brigades go door-to-door looking to impress American children into military service, they will be met with armed, well-trained opposition, the invasion at the Southern border is going full tilt, and the drugs are flowing in like never before . . .
With the borders of Europe and the USA wide open, civil warfare within the USA, Britain, and most of Europe is a certainty if foreign wars are initiated. Nobody is going to fight a war for Biden, he is dumber than Bush . . . Nobody is going to fight a war for that kikesucking Zionist ass-whore Nikki Haley, and I mean nobody.
Get ready for it . . . the fat old devil worshipping fags on Capitol Hill, on Wall Street, in Whitehall, and in Brussels are in no shape to fight a war themselves, and most Americans are armed to the teeth with their own guns . . . NATO hates heterosexual white men . . . they said so themselves . . .
https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/nato-an-anti-white-and-anti-family-institution