October 27, 2025

Our personal authority extends to cover a wide range of matters, internal and external. A lot of us claim personal authority over how our hair is cut. I don't push into that area, and say, "Whatever you think I deserve, when sitting in the hair stalest's chair. There is generally some light-hearted back and forth, and we settle on "About an inch off all over." I have come out just fine over time.

We know what is right for us and what is wrong, where we belong and where we have no business being. And the Old Testament commandment that did not make the top ten but should be #1 in my book, "Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark," is sacrosanct and beyond challenge. Our neighbor, and each of us, know what's what regarding our neighbor and ourselves. And all of us need to recognize and honor that throughout time.

We know what we know, and, ideally, live in close communion with The Knower within, who guides and directs us throughout our life in knowing and doing what needs to be done in each situation as it arises. May we all realize that this is so and spend the necessary amount of time in emptiness, stillness and silence developing our relationship with our Knower and learning how to read the signs directing our way through the choices and decisions that fill each day. So that we might know, for example, when to pull over to the side of the road and take the picture that catches our eye in the moment of our seizure. Etc., and so forth throughout all of life.