Heard the expression “on the Q-T”?
I thought I knew what it meant…I looked it up, wondering what it “really” means, and why it came to me tonight to wonder about.
Ai tells me, and I share with you:
The phrase is an abbreviation of "quiet," with the "Q" and "T" representing the first and last letters of the word. And the meaning? I ask again of Ai:
means "in a secret or quiet way".
Ahhh…yes, that makes sense to me.
I remember asking, as a young child, (lo so many years ago) if my mother believed in a god, and if so, what did she believe about it.
She said yes, she did. I asked more about that, since she did not go to a house of religion, nor did I see her praying or reading spiritual texts.
She said her experience was of a “still quiet voice within”.
Oh.
As a young child, I did not know how to ask more about that.
Like, whose voice was it, and within what, and how and when and why she listened…you know?
Questions like that.
My experience of that “still quiet voice within” tonight?
I was wondering what to write to you, and paused to stop trying to “figure it out”, and instead to listen to that “still quiet voice within”…
Then, in that silence within, A.L.L.A…
Ask. Listen. Learn. Act.
In a way, it is my fingers and hands and arms and body sitting in the chair, lungs breathing, heart beating.
Asking. Listening. Learning. Acting…
And as I do, the words come through from within to here;
the experience of typing on this keyboard.
As the words “appear”, I’m sometimes surprised, delighted.
Sometimes shocked and awed.
Mostly always grateful.
For me, this, right now, is the experience of what I call empathy.
Sooooo….turning to empathy…really appreciating this segue…
You are invited to join me - and others - in an
Empathy Pool Sunday April 6th 10am-noon Pacific Time
Click to RSVP: https://bit.ly/EmpathyPool
Bounce off the high dive, splash in the wading pool, lie on the sunlit beach.
Limited only by imagination…
You choose. Listen. Speak.
Just BE in the company of others, resting, relaxing, rejuvenating, renewing.
Cosseting yourself and others with presence.
Empathic presence. Together. I hope you have time and space to join us.
Until we meet again, dear ones, be well…
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