(why then do I spend more time curating facebook pages than reading – or writing, for that matter?)

The contradictions of the city are many, and our lives are littered with them. I return time and again to the question: What will ground me in something ancient, something wise, something true? But more than this, what will both ground me, and help me to discern how to live into the ancient, wise and true in the here-and-now.

Authenticity may have something to do with it. I’ll have to think through some of those implications in more depth.

I wonder if it romanticized a bit this notion that “newer” is better than “older.” “All these trinkets of temptations, something new for something old” is how the Indigo Girls sing about it in one song. What if the traditional wisdom against the newfangled ideas in the classroom are right after all? (I”m not saying that about any of the details of Foucault of sexuality.)

The new headspace maybe is progress, but maybe not. That is what you’re struggling with in the rubric of “stability” and “instability” I guess but there is this sense among some young adults that the new is always better, that deconstruction of ancient ways is needed because, well, those old ways are so tired. Unless, of course, they aren’t. That “testing” our faith is noble since just trusting it is “inauthentic” or something…

Anyway, it got me to thinking about cultural discernment, again, and I am truly grateful. Sending it out to others…gratefully.