May 07-A, 2023

It is only a matter
of knowing what's what
and doing what needs
to be done about it
in each situation
as it arises.

That is harder than it should be
because we keep getting in the way.

Remember Adam and Eve?

The Garden of Eden metaphor
plays out times everybody 
on the planet
and every situation that arises
for each one
every day.

We get in the way
with our preferences,
desires,
agendas,
plans,
interests,
routines...

Our life gets in our way,
keeping us from being alive
to the time and place of our living.

Trying to live life as we want it to be 
prevents us from living the life
that is ours to live
in response to each situation as it arises.

We have more important things to do--
and live to impose
our list of more important things
onto every situation that comes along.

And there we are.
Nothing is more important
that what we declare to be important.

You might think that our idea 
of what is important
would have proven itself deficient
by now,
given the way things have turned out,
across the country,
around the world.

But no! We are still hot in our pursuit
after what we want NOW!
No reconsideration/reevaluation ever enters
the picture,
only working harder and harder
in the service of what isn't working.

When it is only a matter
of knowing what's what
and doing what needs
to be done about it
in each situation
as it arises.

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