the past 2 months have occupied me with thoughts of loss, uncertainty, faith, and spirit… my father, mentor, and hero, leslie borges jr., had fallen ill the past few months, and on monday, september 19th at 10pm, his spirits lifted from his body… from his work ethic to his colorful language to his love of family, he will be remembered for many things but most of all, i will remember him for courting my beautiful mother, darlene, and gifting my brother and i the freedom to exercise our natural grace… he, in other words, taught me how to be authentically wild!… dad, i will always love you for that!
i will be in nevada indefinitely helping my mom with the transition and managing the family ranch.. it seems so natural to grieve on the land that graces my father’s spirit… below you will find a picture of my father and a collection of thoughts that crisscrossed my consciousness as i coped with the possibility of losing my father… i hope you enjoy them and find resonance…feel free to share if you’d like… my thoughts and spirit and all things ‘wild’ will still flow your way through the wild self, just now, it will orginate from the base of where my soul resides–the land…
for the wild,
gino
* ‘oh, dear mystery, you laugh at plans.. us mortals think we know how our days, months, and years will go.. yet, at every turn, when we think we know what is next, your trickster tendencies deliver unforeseen events.. as life unfolds, please instill me with the wisdom to distinguish between what is worth holding onto and what is destined to be let go’ -gino dante borges, ph.d.
* ’life confronts us with many realities, one being: when you lose something, you gain something else, a cosmic balancing act… yet when in the midst of loss the mysterious gains are difficult to see, hear, feel, smell, and touch… sooner than later though, a surge of spirit pierces the veil of loss so we can find ourselves again’ – gino dante borges, ph.d.
* ‘oh, dear mystery, i find myself over-thinking, giving too much credit to cerebral life… save me from this singular existence, this narrow way of being… open me up to the senses that house my soul… spread your spirit through me, so the light i am can shine again’ – gino dante borges, ph.d.
* ‘uncertainty and loss are two of the most difficult human experiences to live through… feelings of nihilism, fear, anxiety, and aimlessness seep into the marrow of being… yet in the midst, we are compensated by the mysterious energy that resides behind every breath… discovering that compensation is the impulse that drives human quests… because until we are lost, we can’t find what is meant to be found’ – gino dante borges, ph.d.
* ‘oh dear mystery, when faced with the pending loss of a loved one who has no hope of recovery, please lift the spirit from their body… to postpone life when aliveness is unavailable brings great pain… you’re teaching us how spirit works during these times, and we are grateful, but we can’t deny the weight of this encounter… so as we drift toward the final hours with a loved one, guide us through this life situation that has no playbook’ – gino dante borges, ph.d
* ‘when we realize the mystery’s influence on shaping all cause and effect relations, we actualize our highest knowledge, our highest state of being… it is only when we flow with the cosmic stream of consciousness that we discover the deepest forms of knowing, all other forms are fleeting and peripheral’ – gino dante borges, ph.d.
