April 10, 2025
The Practice of Noticing, Naming, and Nurturing by Sally Z. Hare
The Practice of Noticing, Naming, and Nurturing
Noticing requires being awake. Noticing takes time; it is too urgent to be rushed. It's about attention and intention and is interconnected with the practice of being present. Noticing is essential to the possibility of seeing our hidden wholeness: to arriving in the field in which, in Rumi's words, ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense.
Noticing is fundamental to naming. Deep listening and open, honest questions are essential elements of the work-before-the-Work in moving from noticing to naming. Names may change on this continual journey toward wholeness as labels or identifiers that worked earlier in the journey now no longer fit.
The attention and intention required for noticing become even more essential as we move from naming to nurturing. Nurturing entails consciously embodying what I have noticed and named as I move from my inner work into my outer world.”
The ElderGarten - A Field Guide for the Journey of a Lifetime by Sally Z. Hare pgs. 70 - 71
Invitation: “… it is too urgent to be rushed ..”
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"Noticing requires being awake. Noticing takes time; it is too urgent to be rushed. It's about attention and intention and is interconnected with the practice of being present," offers Sally Z. Hare in the ElderGarten: A Field Guide for the Journey of a Lifetime. I appreciate this reminder about noticing and its interconnection with the practice of being present. And, taking time, for me it is a reminder to slow down, to breathe, to pause and to be.