James Cusumano
Challenging times, these are, indeed!
I hope you and yours are staying healthy and safe.
A small thought for your consideration—you may have heard that the Chinese have an interesting philosophy about challenging times or crises. They use two characters for the word ‘crisis’.
危 机
The first character means ‘danger’ and the second means ‘opportunity’. Their point is that in every crisis there is an opportunity—an opportunity for change, and opportunity for creativity, an opportunity for many things.
I was thinking you might consider a brief comment from you in your newsletter to remind your readership of the possibilities they can access during this pandemic—in quiet meditative awareness, to rethink what’s important to them and what changes they might like to make in their life.
To provide a moment of inspiration, they can quiet their mind by watching a six-minute film created by Gary Malkin, a good friend of mine, who worked with cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg — https://vimeo.com/44131171 The point of their film is that true gratitude creates an inner sense of gratefulness and in that state, it’s impossible not to feel fulfillment, happiness—and even creativity.
Just a thought for your consideration,
Jim