just etre, let it be.

there's this lovely French documentary called, Etre et Avoir, "to be and to have." it chronicles the life of this quaint little village centered around the one-room school house. sure, call it slow, but there's something beautiful about it. the film captures the children just "being" and growing as opposed to performing or acting.

the Word Made Flesh community here promotes the idea of "being" rather than "doing." which is a relief, because otherwise i would be overwhelmed by all the things i'm not doing... only after we allow ourselves to be can we catch the vision and strength to be people who do. i love this. so liberating. and then i was thinking about this idea of "being" and remembered, oh yeah, Yaweh, the name of God is "I AM" not "I DO." wow. how perfect.

so, yeah, "etre" - i want to tattoo this on my ankle. i'm always thinking of different things to tattoo on my ankle. for the longest time it was a bonsai tree, but then really, what does that even mean? hmm, it was actually Megan from Eagle Lake's nepal-foot-tattoo-testimony that inspired me to want to check this country out. and painting something meaningful on my feet has become even more beautiful here in nepal because the nepali culture holds the feet to be officially at all times "unclean." the hindu caste-culture believes that the upper caste of people were born from the heads of the gods, the next lower caste, from the gods' necks, and so on. they believe that the lowest caste, the untouchables, were born from the feet of the gods, which is completely offensive. ouch, these people are born under such harsh lies. so i think this makes the idea of a foot/ankle tattoo even more beautiful here, scandalously so. so, if you want to know how i'm doing, just ask what i'm currently thinking about tatooing on my ankle.