Thank you so much for putting all the time you do into writing these articles. I have been enjoying your series on vocation, art, and middle age and have been contemplating many of the same things. You have inspired a lot of thoughts and encouraged me to keep creating!
Hi! This was insightful and so interesting for me to read. First a heads up: I'm going to try explain my thoughts here but English is not my first language. When reading, I realized how much believers and non-believers in religion have in common. My family and relatives share the same sense of awe for these things you mention, and we gather and eat to acknowledge what's truly and deeply important in life, but we substract the organized religion from it. I think, which is a cool thought, that two separate groups of people can have a similar set of values but chose to tie that value system to different objects: nature, God, different acts with the same valued intention behind it. When I eat, I value the food I eat and think of how amazing it is that this food has reached my table. I feel grateful. I feel joy when I produce my own food or contribute in other environment friendly ways to bring a better world, as you put it. So thank you for that reminder, and thank you for writing in a way that made me as a non-religious person feel connection with another community.
Thank you so much for putting all the time you do into writing these articles. I have been enjoying your series on vocation, art, and middle age and have been contemplating many of the same things. You have inspired a lot of thoughts and encouraged me to keep creating!
You're welcome, it's a great delight and good practice for me to write here. Thanks for continuing to create yourself. Keep going!
Cogito, ergo sum - René Descartes
Hi! This was insightful and so interesting for me to read. First a heads up: I'm going to try explain my thoughts here but English is not my first language. When reading, I realized how much believers and non-believers in religion have in common. My family and relatives share the same sense of awe for these things you mention, and we gather and eat to acknowledge what's truly and deeply important in life, but we substract the organized religion from it. I think, which is a cool thought, that two separate groups of people can have a similar set of values but chose to tie that value system to different objects: nature, God, different acts with the same valued intention behind it. When I eat, I value the food I eat and think of how amazing it is that this food has reached my table. I feel grateful. I feel joy when I produce my own food or contribute in other environment friendly ways to bring a better world, as you put it. So thank you for that reminder, and thank you for writing in a way that made me as a non-religious person feel connection with another community.