Soulpancake

So I recently discovered an incredible book.  It’s called Soulpancake and Rainn Wilson is one of the co-authors of this amazingly reflective text.  At first sight, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical.  I thought, “Soulpancake?  What will they think of next?”  When I heard Rainn Wilson helped come up with it, I thought, “Oh my, this ought to be interesting!”  Don’t get me wrong, I like Rainn Wilson.  He’s quite the character, especially in his Role as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office.  But never in a million years would I have considered him the reflective type.  Turns out, he’s quite the reflectionist (I just made that word up) :)  and the book is an incredible piece of literature in my opinion.  It challenges us to think to tangle with some really deep stuff.

“Soulpancake is a movement to chew on life’s big questions.  It’s a space to tackle art, philosophy, creativity, and spirituality.  And ultimately, Soulpancake is about you—the thinkers, artists, poets, and misfits who seek to stamp out stigmas, shake up truths, and redefine what it means to be human.”

Today, I think most of us sometimes forget that we are human.  We live in a fast-paced, technologically advanced, and insanely connected global community which sometimes makes us perceive that we are completely invisible and definitely knowledgeable about anything and everything.  The truth is, we aren’t.  And there are some tough questions out there that we are selves should reflect on from time to time.  From fun questions like “Why is music so powerful?” to the life-changing questions such as “If you only had one hour left to live, how would you spend it?”, it's important to wonder and engage our curiosity, in an effort to fully discover who are in this great big world of ours.

That being said, this post goes out to Rainn Wilson, Devon Gundry, Golriz Lucina, and Shabnam Mogharabi.  I’m going to dig into Soulpancake and “Chew on lifes’ big questions.”  I really want to know what it is like to be human because I am one and I believe once we all know that, we start living, and help others to do the same.  Thanks for creating such a cool concept and allowing me the opportunity to not only think about life’s big questions, but also to learn a little bit more about myself, who I am, and where I fit into the story of life.  :)

Patience...

I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I would run to nearby room with a window when I first heard thunder, sit on the floor, and wait to catch a giant lightning bolt shoot across the sky (don’t worry.  I kept my distance.  Are you kidding me?  The newscasters constantly told me not to stand next to the window cause I would get struck.  There was no way I’d stand next to it!).  Anyway, I’d wait, and wait, and wait for the perfect lightning bolt to catch me by surprise and amaze me with it’s wonder.

CRASH!



“Woah…”

It took a lot of Patience at that age to do such a thing.  A lot of Patience.  And yet today, when the internet is taking a bit longer to load or my phone is acting up, I can’t wait a second more for it to start working again!  :)

What’s with that?!  Where did I learn this?!  How did we get so impatient?  At one point in our lives, we waited all the live long day to catch a shooting star streak across the sky.  And when we saw one, even the most amazing shooting star of all time, we had to wait just a bit longer after that to see if we could catch an even more amazing shooting star—at least I was that way—because we knew something bigger and better would come our way.

I guess let this be a lesson to us.  Maybe we should consider having Patience in our unbelievably fast paced, instant gratification society.  Who knows what that might bring.  Perhaps something BIGGER and better.  Yeah!  There’s gotta be something more worthy on the horizon when we have Patience.

Patience might take awhile, but it’s gonna be worthwhile.  :)