Overnight the buds popped on the trees and the jacarandas are exploding with brilliant lavender blooms. Spring fever is here and - oh - there's a fat robin red-breast...welcome to working with a Spring fever. The phrase that keeps coming to mind for me is "Crazy Wisdom" (coined by the founder of Shambhala Buddhism, Chögyam Trungpa) which refers, according to Steven Goodman, "to someone who seems to be intoxicated with an un-bounded, luminous, loving energy." It aligns with the concept of the sacred fool, or as personified by the famous picture of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue - the … [Read more...]