Beyond your temporal ego to your timeless being

 

Beyond your temporal ego to your timeless being < Pi-edPiperHound > 

Once you get home and unwind, if at all. Where does your mind and soul reside? In the irksome agitations of the day. In the exhilarations of your engaging the day's moments? The after-work physical and mental venues of escape?

In one of those venues of escape, are there insights on things you noticed about yourself that were more applicable to other things 

than the time, place, and 

events in which they 

were taken note? Were 

those things transcendent in quality 

and for your present thinking and future behavior?

If that former narrative rings true in your memory of things, have there been other similar insights

             

that are related in the nature of being transcending thoughts and perspective changes of behavior?

It's these things that remove you from the immediacy of your present circumstances and the roles you choose or are obliged to assume for those circumstances, does it bring you to a stoic place of detachment and connected to grander principles and their aesthetic trappings that envelope those principles?

Those aesthetic trappings bring you to an attitude that what your expressing or exhibiting isn't for the benefit of your ego's admiration or status for itself or from others. What you 

first see retrospectively and now is prospectively being a channel and 

the vessel-pawn of a perceived imperative of Time's demands in its visitation to the doings of the temporal moment.

In that retrospective insight and prospective willingness, you acknowledge yourself being a citizen of eternal Time, that has its own standards that go past doing things for your standing among others in your physical and social space in the present, but in support of the future consequence beyond yours or your contemporaries presents angst of conceivable thoughts and emotions

  

de Ol'Hound

As relevant to day as it was on my graduation day in June 1972!

Elijah Anderson on the burden of being Black in white spaces
Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, discusses his latest book, “Black in White Space,” which documents the unique challenges facing Black people as they navigate overwhelmingly white settings and struggle to overcome stereotypes that continue to stigmatize them.

The  pressures to be cohesive and acculturated in micro-social interactions and the indirect institutional manifestations and decorum have created the friction that E. Anderson expounds upon. The lack of a nuanced, intimate empathy by most non-minority, white students to the ethos of Black people who are descendants of their ante-Bellum-to-Jim Crow progenitors and the ethos they developed as a reactive, coping mechanism to those environments that were repressive and terroristic to Black life has its latter-day modified, evolved, coping forms of non-minority attitudes of today.

Even with more integrative and pluralistic interactions that allow more latitude in the micro-interactions, the macro-scenes resistance to Critical Race Theory doctrine, per se, and other contemporary progressive (but short of hype-sensitive and over-the-top, so-called "wokeness") aspirations reveals the present nuanced distinctions of friction between Black and non-minority culture.