Is This Not A Wakeup Call?

Sense-making is a necessary skill that we take for granted when things are copacetic.

It becomes infinitely more valuable in uncertainty (along with its close friend meaning-making).

Sense-making is not solely the province of think tanks and pundits, statistical models and actuarial tables.

It is universal, fundamental, implicit within each living organism.

How else to explain the migration of birds, the turning of heliotropes, the pull downward and inward after heartbreak?

Life beats its own rhythm.

The hubris of intellect would lead us to believe we can simply think our way out of the rhythm of the world.

You will not think your way out of this.

Not if you sacrifice the older, deeper elements of — and beyond — yourself.

Blind rationalism would have us place our fate solely in the hands of the conscious cognitive capacities of the naked ape, forgetting that the unknown within us and around us pulls invisible reins beyond our control and prediction.

There is much we do not — and may not ever — know. How does that uncertainty make you feel?

Again, you will not think your way out of this, but that may very well be ok.

Do not forfeit thought.

Likewise do not let the fruit of intellect cut itself off from the roots at its base.

Sensing, feeling, thinking, acting...these are the fundamental means of making sense and making meaning in a wild world.

Don't get tame.