Funny...

Humor is a tricky proposition. Too often I experience some people reflexively using humor to keep out of the underlying realities of their life. Easier to joke and let it be…let a numbness stay…than to truly be with the real feelings.

Having said that, I cannot imagine me, or the rest of humanity, surviving the next decade or so without an ongoing ability to laugh at ourselves loudly and often…to take in human folly unfiltered…our relentless ridiculousness…that has brought us deep into the midst of profound, increasing chaos…a dynamic that will either shake us awake…or else.

I truly believe in the power of humor. My second wife was probably the least humorous person I ever met…it was probably close to 20 years before I ever heard her say something with the intent to be funny. But in her hard-edged, Manhattan-bred, driven demeanor, she could laugh at things I said…and her ability to see the humor being pointed out in something enabled us to make the relationship relatively successful.

I have to find my own arrogance and myopia amusing…in order to find my way through the maze we’ve personally and collectively co-created for ourselves…in order to become able to see with somewhat greater clarity.