March 17, 2025

I am delighted that I got my going days done when it was time for going! It is a good thing that I did not wait until now! Grocery shopping is about it these days, which leaves me with time to re-process images I took in my not-so-long-ago, and to consider how much the days take out of us along the way. And how much it takes to do so little now.

It is a gift to be able to explore emptiness, stillness, silence 
as they needs to be explored, and to realize it falls to older people to do because the younger ones among us don't have the time or the inclination to drop into the stillness and wait for clarity to appear, arise, occur to show the way. Mining the treasures of tranquility and serenity is a pleasures of old age, and, "Peaceful abiding here, now," is a gift of the days that are upon me--and along with it the Buddha's other gift of "Listen to YOU!" is also not wasted on me.

In the emptiness there is none to listen to BUT me! And I am glad to be the recipient of my own realizations. Which was also one of Joseph Campbell's discoveries in his retirement, the way reflection results in new realizations. Gifts of the ages! To those at the right time of their life to enjoy the benefits of the years spent gleaning things to reflect on as the days pass,
blessing all of us with new things to consider, all along the way yet to be lived into the far distant future stretching out before us all!