MOVEMENT

Does being around men having intelligent conversation influence you?  I recall once being asked to schedule a meeting, in which we would be sponteneous and think 'outside the box' about some organizational mischiefs. And I lost my boyish charm explaining I didn't know how to plan sponteneity. No clue. So I sat quietly, befuddled, disappointed at what I heard.  As you can tell, it is with me to this day, many decades later. Learning from history, can tell us much about ourselves, if that is what we are questioning. What of rightness or accuracy?  Begin with what you have. It may be refined through life, it might be challenged and entirely replaced. Or it might be validating. Being open to those possibiltiies doesn't mean we won't ever again experience disapointments. It means they will be in this broader context- what can we learn from them, can we integrate that learning? Or do we store it away until we find a use.  I love that masonry provides the academic in use with incredible challenges at the same time, instilling in us the manner of a gentlemen content knowing what he doesn't know is always greater than his knowledge on a given day. If we aren't sure about masonry, we can act as if we are. We can act with a sense of respect, embracing diversity, challenging ourselves to answer the question about a good life being connected to living a virtuous life. He was infaliable as we know but was Aristole accurate in  thinking virtue was the source of a good life?   That is where we find ourselves realizing we begin the conversation with a firmer understanding of his terms and our own. We aren't born knowing morality, or are we? Is it something that is lost as we grow old and need to restore?  We do become tired. There are days when we aren't inspired or searching but observing. We always know the difference between a pause and avoidance so be generous by brother.