The name for this blog comes from the song Don't Forget About Delight by Bruce Cockburn. By the way, that's pronounced Co-burn, not the other way.
Other names on the shortlist were 'Kick at the Darkness', from the Cockburn song Lovers in a Dangerous Time (also quoted by U2 in their song God Pt II): describes what I want my life to be about, but sounds a little violent for a blog; 'Water into Wine', the title of my favourite Cockburn instrumental: nice but maybe carries a little too much hubris (implying a divine inspiration for my words); a bunch of others from various other Cockburn songs: No Footprints, Light Falling All Around, Never So Free, Life Will Open, ...
But I chose 'afoot and empty-handed' because it describes how I feel as a poor, earth-bound human being, a blind man among the blind, struggling to make sense of it all while at the same time trying to keep a sense of wonder and delight at the mystery that we're all a part of and the breathtaking story that is unfolding.
"If we can sing with the wind song
Chant with thunder
Play upon the lightning
Melodies of wonder
Into wonder life will open"
- Bruce Cockburn, Life Will Open (from Sunwheel Dance, 1971).
Since this seems to have morphed into a Cockburn post, I'll finish off with a quote by Bruce from a recent interview in The Sun:
"For me the essential point of life is the fact that we are spiritual beings and that there is a divine in which we should be connected - in fact, are connected, but its up to us to recognize that connection and pay attention to it. Everything else we do has value based on its relationship to that central point."Couldn't have put it better myself...
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Inspiration can be a powerful thing, it can keep you going when all around you cries out "quit" It is even more powerful than motivation, as motivation gives you the basic reasons to keep going, it tells you why you want to do what you do, because motivation is based on goals.
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