Dirt, Mud & Sludge: More vs Enough
In Hebrew adom (man) is derived from
adama (from dirt -earth).
Indeed, we are the Adams Family
needing to wash our hands
As dark is necessary for light, the
dirt from which we came is fundamental to the cleansing process of creation. The
process: incomplete creation, cleansing, confusion, descending (down to go up –
Egypt to Israel), and re-ascension.
Sha-dai
(in Hebrew) =(Sha)Who-(dai) Enough
A
Dirty Personal Financial Life Planning Demonstration
of More vs Enough
When I conducted personal financial planning life workshops, I demonstrated how
more, better, now became ‘worse, less,
and later’ through a simple exercise.
Necessary for the demonstration was:
· a willing volunteer (preferably a doubting ‘more-on’)
· two fistfuls of dirt
· a sprinkling can
· a towel
· a trowel
The demonstration proceeded as follows:
1. I’d ask the volunteer to put out both hands – into each I would put a good
size lump of dirt with the trowel
2. I would sprinkle water onto the dirt in one hand – till it absorbed.
3. Then I would continue to sprinkle water until it became mud
4. Not satisfied, I would continue to sprinkle water until the mud itself was
liquid –running through the volunteers
5. Being the kind gentle normal person I am I would then offer my assistance
with towel to dry off the first hand
6. Next I would sprinkle water on the dirt in the second hand and stop as soon
as it was absorbed by the dirt without it becoming mud or dripping.
I then would turn to the audience and ask (which still stunned)), “what is the
moral of this demonstration?” (No one ever answered!)
And the moral of the demonstration I would finally tell them, is: more vs enough: more, better, now has a way
of becoming less, worse, and later slipping through your fingers.
Thus, the ‘less-on’ of ‘more vs enough’ aka trowel
and error OR ‘dropping trowel.’
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Neither a Hoover Windtunnel™, nor a Eureka
Smart Vac™, let alone Dyson and its claimed suction power – is enough to clean
and cleanse the dirt turned sludge and mire from more, more, more.
Instead
of ascending, more, in time, descends.
The
question isn’t more (which slips through one’s fingers) or a particular number
(which gets recalibrated) but ‘enough’ of Sha-dai: enough to live for – enough
to live on as a member of Adam’s Family
