On companionship

Today, I had the opportunity to meet the bright-minded young soul, Jordan Kincaid, who authored the above contemplation.

Reading this, I am recalled to an aphorism from January, Textimony 20120128.

I am also reminded of when my beloved mentor, Richard Owsley, was conferring with me on the creation of a new course, the phenomenology of embodiment. Our focus was going to be the singular body & the body politic.

It was during these dialogs that we first disclosed how both “free” and “friend” derive from the same root. As we wandered in our conversation, digging up this and that, we also stumbled upon how the term “companionship” means “those who break bread together.”

I am always delighted to see how so many of the Millenials are recognizing the need to communicate, to rise as Jean Luc Nancy might say, above totalizing communion and really engage in community. This is what Jaspers calls the loving contest or struggle: when we recognize how each one of us is a community engaging a greater community and how all of these are singular expressions or modes of the Encompassing.

Check out more of Jordan’s blog, tothesungod. And if you live in Denton, I hope you will make him feel at home while he is among us engaging, researching, and contemplating.