TEMPUS FUGIT

Welcome to the midpoint

TEMPUS FUGIT

Welcome To The Midpoint 

Beyond a mere idiom that suggests fleeting time, ‘Tempus Fugit’ offers a scenic view, a panoramic vision of universal truth, a wide angle on impermanence, and with deep listening a perfect opportunity to absorb the eternal music of arising moments that score and color the wonder and mystery of our precious lives.  

HERE WE ARE. . .AGAIN

We’re six months into ACTING HUMAN, the Substack Newsletter. Using the container of a calendar year, we are smack dab in the middle. In narrative terms, a critical place in the plot. The midpoint.

Midpoints ask us to shake things up in our narratives. Those of us who write plays, especially for the screen, are steeped in the adage that screenplays are ‘structure, structure, structure.’

Plays need to make more sense than life. We, in ordinary life, use narrative entertainment to satisfy our need for safety. Narrative structures that give us the feeling that life makes sense, more or less, in one way or another.

And, we separate ourselves from direct experience of story as we impose narrative prematurely to avoid the dangerous discomfort of not knowing.

The rub is that we cannot learn if ‘think’ we already know.

Our discomfort sets us on a course rooted in fear that avoids ‘don’t know mind.’ We kill curiosity and rob ourselves of the joy that resonates from learning to live life alive. Out of fear and avoidance we settle, instead, for ‘life styles.’

HEADED FOR THE PROMISED LAND

And so, as promised, we embark on a deep dive into narrative. We will learn to use story and narrative instead of getting swept away from our human creativity as others use story and narrative to have their way with us for purposes that do not serve sanity and humanity.

Narratives begin with exposition, the introduction or beginning that reveals important background information. Actually, as we’ve already discussed, and we’ll rediscover ad infinitum (lotsa Latin today) every moment is new and expository.

For now, before we ‘shake things up’ as befits our arrival at the midpoint plot turn, please return to the beginning. My humble ask, please reread the first post, ‘Here We Are,” and, at least, scan the posts that bring us here.

https://www.actinghuman.com/p/here-we-are?r=8sat

Do it in the spirit of full and easy engagement in the process of co-creation. Enjoy your desire to live an enlarged and vibrant life.

“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”  ~Mary Oliver

We, like Mary, want to nurture our capacity to merge and reemerge in rhythm with the world, to vibrate in modulating harmony as one, to rotate freely within Universes and Galaxies. 

We want to nurture our need to live life alive, not merely metabolize as biological specimens and exist pro forma. (More Latin, which - ahhh - happily conforms to the rule of three. I have structural needs, too. Nobody’s perfect.)

We want to nurture our human impulse to participate intentionally, to practice, to learn continuously, to create eternally (outside of time) and emerge organically (recreate) as whole HUMAN ACTORS in oneness with all creation.

Until next time. . .

Lights Up!