Anxiety... "Shall we jump? He's getting closer! Ready? Will you follow me? Yet, the entire scene is so peaceful, "campestre", lighted by a midday sun, clear, warm, a fresh breeze inviting...yet, there it is...anxiety...! 😨 Later that day, reading David Whyte's pp. 23-34, he communicates...: "One of the greatest gifts we can give to our friends, our partners, our children, or our colleagues, might be to forsake anxiety: to realize how much we use our worrying as a barrier to our becoming and a protection against real intimacy, real friendship and a real engagement with our work. One of our greatest gifts as a provider might be to stop all the worry about those we are providing for; to provide something else, something that is more difficult to give about something they might actually want – a deeper more rested, and invitational sense of presence and the gift of timelessness in that presence." I had never thought of it that way... Ref: Con...