December 10, 2023 – A

What would be most helpful to you
at this point in your life?

What is most helpful to me
is communion/conversation with people
who are interested in the questions
I am interested in--
and reading what they have written
is a form of communion/conversation.

Native Americans are saying things I'm interested in.
And old Taoists from 500 BCE.
And Japanese poets from 1200 CE.

Life hasn't been the way people want it to be
from the beginning.
How they deal with that,
put themselves in accord with that,
live with that,
interests me.

They work on adjusting their response
to things they cannot impact or change,
folding it into their life
and living around it, with it,
"anyway, nevertheless, even so."

They change themselves 
in relation to the things 
they cannot change.
They change their mind,
their perception,
perspective,
and live on as best they can,
moving if need be,
following the food supply,
going where water is to be found,
for instance,
wandering,
rambling,
looking for some better place to be...
throughout time.

And withdrawing from people
who are not good for them 
to be around.

Mormons know about that,
looking for a place to settle down
where people will allow them to be 
who they are.

We all know about that.
Looking for safe places to be.
To be who we are.

I relish the company of those
who allow me to be who I am.
And are glad to find a place in my company
that allows them to be who they are.

The craziest people I have known
couldn't allow themselves to be who they were.
Who couldn't fit their idea of who they ought to be.
Who were never "good enough"
to be acceptable to themselves.

We all have to make peace with ourselves
before we can make peace with our life
and our place in life.
Everything flows from there
to wherever it is going.

And we just tag along,
looking for a safe place to be,
that is comfortable enough to stay for a while.

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