... REFLECTIONS ... by https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc Opening a space for reflections - began in Lisbon... and moving into the beyond… # What is it to be human? # iKLEKTIK en-us 2022-11-10 10:16:24 UTC 2024-11-16 18:29:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Once upon a time after Africa... iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2378371575 - a moment of (re)connecting, pondering, scary and enlightening potential new beginnings continuing into the beauty of African sunsets...]]> 2022-11-10 10:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2378371575 "Reflections of my life" (song my the Marmalade)... contributed by Steve iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2378378615 ...Thanks to Steve for sharing this]]> 2022-11-10 10:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2378378615 Athens sunrise... https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2378452488
Back in time to when wandering  was opening up again... Dawn rising after a somewhat sleepless night... Reflections are deep in these moments! ]]> 2022-11-10 11:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2378452488 An invitation... iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2379968458 early thoughts on the Reflections session...(scruffily) handwritten on a sunny day outside a pub in London ]]> 2022-11-11 09:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2379968458 Lisbon: pre-reflections reflection... https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2380868885 Reflection time with Nate, nearing sunset at the local Miradouro... Deeply, beautifully and poignantly connecting to life]]> 2022-11-12 07:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2380868885 Dark yellow on yellow shadows https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2380870118 The artificial light casts shadows on the natural... More than might be apparent]]> 2022-11-12 07:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2380870118 Dawn breaks below the moon https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2380871382 Over the rooftops of the morning skies... I wonder what Lisbon will hold for the day ahead... What reflections? ]]> 2022-11-12 08:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2380871382 Pre-brunch https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2380934853 2022-11-12 10:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2380934853 Space to reflect natsg https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2381077997 Reflections require a pause, a breath…slowing down. Travelling forces me to stop and ponder. Floating above the clouds, the earth, is perfect for reflecting. ☁️☁️🌥✈️🏔]]> 2022-11-12 15:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2381077997 The 4am mystery natsg https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2381311312 Reflecting during the mystery hour…

https://www.ted.com/talks/rives_the_4_a_m_mystery


]]> 2022-11-13 03:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2381311312 Unintentional unknowns https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2381820587 I don't know what this is or how it was captured... Only that there is beauty all around, even when we don't see it or realise its there.

Magical 💫]]> 2022-11-13 20:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2381820587 (Do) Look up!! https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2381870584 2022-11-13 22:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2381870584 Community... connection iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2382507168 One layer of reflection over the weekend was about (lost) connection and (finding) community... 

There was reference to how a beautiful individual tree - is still part of the community of a forrest - and how all resource each other in that system... 

Definitely maybe / maybe definitely we have so much to learn by RE-CONNECTING to the wisdom of the nature we are all always part of (however distant we have become - and what we have put as barrier in between us) 

Time to 'feel' and 'be' again - we can create this space of (re-)connection between us   ]]> 2022-11-14 08:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2382507168 Reading... iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2382654663 Yes, those of you who know me well - know I'm not your typical reader - at least of books... 


This was the last one (of very few in my lifetime) i read. I'm reminded of it because of the connection / community / tree / forest reflection... and what Nora Bateson talks about and references in the book about living systems.


Life is life...   

]]> 2022-11-14 10:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2382654663 Look at life a little more closely... https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2384406457 ... and we may see...
... and feel... ]]> 2022-11-15 08:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2384406457 ... that: 'Yes, life is good' https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2384408628 2022-11-15 08:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2384408628 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2390375390 2022-11-18 19:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2390375390 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2394769310 2022-11-22 22:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2394769310 opening ... REFLECTIONS ... again https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2527815142 www.iklektik.org/reflections.html
Space for Reflections... Opening again soon... 
Let's JOIN together!...

2-4 June 2023
Lisbon, Portugal]]> 2023-03-22 21:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2527815142 Beginning (again) to slowly open a space for reflections... https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2606025817 ... pondering what will come into this space]]> 2023-05-26 09:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2606025817 Soul reflections natsg https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2608638900 2023-05-30 05:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2608638900 Opening a space for reflection https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2610236413 ... Suspend what appears to be reality
... Redirect attention (from exterior) to interior
... Let go / accept your experience from there]]> 2023-05-31 07:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2610236413 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2610396371 Looking forward to this reflections space waiting for us in Lisbon ✨]]> 2023-05-31 10:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2610396371 Look up (again)... https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2613457737 2023-06-03 09:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2613457737 Questions? https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2613803889 How can we be the questions we ask? 
(not strain to seek the answers) ]]> 2023-06-04 07:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2613803889 Lisabon june 2023 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2614808147 Linden trees will trigger me to reflect from today. ]]> 2023-06-05 13:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2614808147 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615015303 Drawn in the train using my notebook’s shape…]]> 2023-06-05 16:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615015303 Answers? https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615019185 What happens to a knot when we desperately try to untangle it? It gets tighter… 

…slowly, gently, allow, let be…]]> 2023-06-05 16:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615019185 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615026851 Some wall wisdom welcomes me again on the streets of Lisbon: “I think but I don’t exist”. So, on the one hand, the fact that we think is fundamental for knowing we exist - on the other hand, thinking is not enough to guarantee human existence.

I think, therefore I am (Descartes)
I think, therefore I am not, therefore I only think (Daniel Lima)
Therefore I am. I am. Am (Nate)

P.S. There’s a good pasta place right across this sign! I am. Am. Am eating good pasta…(Ana)]]> 2023-06-05 17:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615026851 From mind space to heart space https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615030587 2023-06-05 17:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615030587 Yes, life is good (Part II) https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615032216 2023-06-05 17:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615032216 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615047993 I stretched my soul like:

🧈 good butter spread on hot bread (freshly taken out of the oven)
🦅 a bird stretches its wings for the first time after living in a bird cage
☀️ the way you hang a white sheet on the washing line to let it dry out in the sun
🥄 a spoon of Nutella on a homemade pancake
🌅 the horizon stretches the sunset into a thin, colourful line
😀 a smile stretches the sunburnt face
🛏️ a blanket that covers you when you’re cold
⛰️ a thread of a stream (stretched between mountains) which flows nowhere and towards all corners of being at the same time

(originally written in Romanian)

]]> 2023-06-05 17:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615047993 Remembering this poem because of the last few lines https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615239007 [Romanian]
În fiecare dimineață pornim la război
Cu mâinile goale, cu sufletul dezvelit
Credem că putem lupta, învinge, demonstra
Că suntem puternici, c-avem ziduri de piatră
care ne-apară de durere
Și îngeri păzitori care ne apară de noi
Dar la final de zi nu mai știm unde-i războiul
și nici pentru ce luptăm
Afară-i pustiu, înăuntru prea mult zgomot.
Ne hotărâm greu, ne ia o viață să fim
Căci încă nu știm decât să trăim în vecinătatea fericirii
și mai rar în ea.
 
[English]
Every morning we go to war
With bare hands, with an unveiled soul
We believe we can battle, defeat, prove
That we are strong, that we have walls of stone
which protect us from pain
And guardian angels who protect us from ourselves
But at the end of the day, we no longer know where the war is
nor what we are fighting for
It's deserted outside, too much noise inside.
It’s difficult to make our minds up, it takes us a lifetime to be
Since we still only know how to live in the vicinity of happiness
and less often in it.
 
(by Anca Dumitrescu, contemporary Romanian     writer and beautiful soul)]]> 2023-06-05 22:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2615239007 Pessoa in 1900s https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2617488050 Extract from Fernando Pessoa’s sonnet - screenshot taken when I couldn’t sleep (he was born in Lisbon, 1888)

]]> 2023-06-07 20:41:15 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2617488050 Pessoa in 2023 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2617490201 Bumped into him chilling with some Coca-Cola on my way to the train station]]> 2023-06-07 20:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2617490201 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2618131372 2023-06-08 09:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2618131372 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2618131737 2023-06-08 09:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2618131737 Multiple reflections from shattered mirror (on street in Berlin) https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2619284703 2023-06-09 12:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2619284703 Lumiere in Durham 2023 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2794944126 2023-11-18 20:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/2794944126 The Invitation iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3131437321 by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

]]> 2024-09-22 10:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3131437321 An invitation?... (2024 edition) iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3131442766 An invitation… 

Maybe it’s a song, or a poem, or a question?… 


A reflection into reflections… 

An opening into openings… 

Potential connections


There could be an extending here 

...further articulation: Though really it’s superfluous 


And essentially the invitation is

Inviting us into an extending

…into whatever might be (?)



Interested?… 


Reflections are opening again...

Somewhere here: ...and within 

]]> 2024-09-22 10:21:16 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3131442766 Pre-reflection transitioning into reflections https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3139005744 2024-09-25 22:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3139005744 6:07 iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3139745163 ...sleep

]]> 2024-09-26 06:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3139745163 https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3143170400 2024-09-27 21:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3143170400 reflecting... https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3146517106 ...on a need to reflect about not finding time for reflection. which doesn't get much traction. because I'm....somewhere.... in the world.... not in the inner world for sure..... I thought I would reflect. but I didn't. because I've been feeling overwhelmed for months. or maybe it is years? who knows... time flies when you're not having time.

]]> 2024-09-30 15:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3146517106 Stillness is subjective & relative... iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3149740811 Clouds and waves...

skies and sands, rocks and fauna:

...all make for a quality of presence

and reflections


nourishing depths of the soul


Until we meet again...

]]> 2024-10-02 06:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3149740811 iklektik_chris https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3149758305 ...when reflections are transitioning...


wandering / wondering what will emerge

]]> 2024-10-02 07:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3149758305 Coffee woz 'ere https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3157186135 2024-10-07 14:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3157186135 Nocturnal https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3220098122 Lovers stay embraced

braided with silk thread

While the moon hides her beauty, ashamed

among black, heavy curtains

The sea combs her white, swirling mane

with regular movements towards the shore

The night falls in the balearic chambers:

hearts begin to flutter and

starving souls crawl out to hunt

]]> 2024-11-16 18:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/iklektik_chris/6gqaudzpgc9r88kc/wish/3220098122