July 04, 2025

This is the most bleak Fourth of July in my experience, and this is my 81st experience. The Constitution is out of vogue. The Bill of Rights is a laughter. The majority of the Supreme Court asks Trump how he wants them to vote. We have a king on his throne in the White House. And the welfare of the people with less than a billion dollars in their bank account is not the concern of the government that runs the country. And this is not going to get better any time soon. It will get worse as the days go by. And we have to take care of ourselves.

That is the one good thing coming out of all of this. Our life is our affair, our responsibility like never before. We have to learn to be who we are and do what is ours to do. No monkeying around. No living like it doesn't matter how we live. We have to live like it counts. There is no time to throw away.

We have to turn to the emptiness, stillness, silence because that is where the answers are to be found. The silence knows. And we can trust what we find there. Speaking of trust, we have to trust our intuition as never before. Listening to our intuition is the same thing as being enlightened. Sitting in the silence (And silence includes emptiness and stillness. The three are one), listening to our intuition is the way to spend the rest of our life. That is the way of the Tao. The way to a life worth living within any set of circumstances. That is what got us from the caves to the high-rises, and then we decided we didn't need silence anymore and embraced noise and ignorant pastimes as a way of life and that got us here, now. Now it is time to return to the silence and do what the silence calls for in each situation as it arises. All our life long.