Deep Dive

I try to dive deep. 

At or near the surface, it’s difficult to see. Water refracts light, and salt water is translucent, so when you open your eyes in the sea you can see, but you can't really see, and that is a problem if you want to see clearly.

It’s dangerous to think you can see when you really can't.

So I like to dive far below the surface, where there is no light, but only darkness. 

In the darkness, you can't use your eyes. Your brain wonders what to do, because normally it uses most of it's power to process the things the eyes see. Immediately, it has to turn it's power to hearing, a sense we don't use much in today's world, but that we need to use more, yes?

In the deep, we listen for the whole, not just the part. 

Normally, when we think we can see, we see the part then stop looking and fill in the story with what we already know. 

But in the deep, things aren't so easily known. So we must listen.

Creatively. Courageously. Compassionately.

It is listening that makes us more human, that helps us build a more human world.