Being-ness Then and Now

It seemed like a good time for me, and maybe you, if you are reading this, to re-post the very first Christmas season post I wrote for my blog. Whatever you believe, this post is about being and being-ness and not doing and doing-ness. I am personally practicing more, different, and various forms of centering and breathing, of embracing the Now, and accepting who I am and the paths I have taken, as well as trying to understand who other people “are”, not so much what they “do”. I hope you might wrestle with me on some of the thoughts I posted in what sometimes seems a lifetime ago, in 2015. It felt freshly needed for me in light of all that has changed out there, and in all that remains the same, in me and maybe in you, in 2019.

A Christmas Letter on Being-ness

by Jane Tawel

December 24, 2015

A Christmas Letter is about all the stuff one and one’s family has done in the past year. It’s an accounting of achievements and that is as it should be since that is what satisfies the recipients’ curiosity. There is a saying people toss around when they are telling one not to stress — “We’re not called human doings, we’re called human beings”. As I age, I am distilling into more and more myself, which is (I’m often told) — impassioned and weird. So once again this season, I write my traditional odd and intense Christmas letter, not…