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March 03-B, 2023

Everything we need to meet the moment and do what needs to be done here/now is right here right now. It only takes being open to it to know that it is so. Oh, there is a catch. It is not on our terms. We do not live on our terms. We do not meetContinue reading “March 03-B, 2023”

March 03-A, 2023

Imposing our will for our life upon our life presumes to know more than our life knows about what is good for it and what is not good for it. Listening to our life, trusting our live, serving our life, is quite different from seeking and serving our life’s will for itself. Will and ambition,Continue reading “March 03-A, 2023”

March 02-B, 2023

Which is the greater miracle: that all of this is the result of a meticulous Grand Plan (The Plan of Salvation), with everything worked out in the finest detail, like the number of feathers on every bird at any time– or that nothing is? That everything is the result of randomness and accident, with circumstancesContinue reading “March 02-B, 2023”

March 02-A, 2023

Instinct, intuition, premonition, are tucked into our psyche– the same psyche that guided our distant ancestors through their days/lives and produced us over time. We know things we don’t know how we know. Vision quests and walkabouts are ways those distant ancestors placed themselves at the direction of what they may have called “the animalContinue reading “March 02-A, 2023”

March 01-B, 2023

I think things do not ever settle into how they are going to be. Never settling is as settled as it gets. Something is always happening. Circumstances beget circumstances, and things go to hell again. Another war comes along. Another pandemic strikes. Floods and droughts chase each other throughout eternity. The latest incarnation of theContinue reading “March 01-B, 2023”

March, 2023

The point is not to have what we want and live happily ever after. What does wanting and happy know? The point is to be who we are within the terms and conditions, context and circumstances, time and place of our lives. To be true to ourselves in each here/now of our living. To workContinue reading “March, 2023”

March 01-A, 2023

We cannot hope to do better than living truthfully, bringing forth who we are and what we have been given by virtue of our DNA to develop and serve in expressing, exhibiting, serving, the things we love and love to do. What are we doing when we are having the best time of our life?Continue reading “March 01-A, 2023”

Spring Months, 2023

Ourselves–the term sounds strange until we understand that “we” are composed of a multitude of layers, all with something at stake in who we are, and our conscious exterior’s rightful place is to tune into our interior’s (Which we call “The Unconscious” because we are not conscious of it) interests/leanings/drifts/directives, so that we form aContinue reading “Spring Months, 2023”

February 28-B, 2023

Squaring ourselves up with how things are is a part of our daily practice routine. “This is how things are, and this is what I can do about it, and that’s that!” Every day for the rest of our life. How things are changes, and what we can do about it changes, but “that’s that”Continue reading “February 28-B, 2023”

February 28-A, 2023

There are people who hate other people because they see partially and with partiality. Seeing wholly, completely and impartially is to see with balance and harmony and the world is a peaceful place. How long has it been? Not in the lifetime of anyone who has ever lived. Seeing partially with partiality is the wayContinue reading “February 28-A, 2023”

February 27-B, 2023

I’m glad I’ve been there (Three times, I think, maybe four), I’ll never be back, and that is fine. It is called “Squaring yourself up with the way things are.” I did not have me, or anyone like me, for a father, and even so, I’ve made it this far, and that is fine. IfContinue reading “February 27-B, 2023”

February 27-A, 2023

When we look, we see our expectations, judgments, biases/prejudices, evaluations, appraisals, analysis, conclusions, inferences, assumptions… We cannot get ourselves out of our way in order to see what we look at. We see what we know is there. If you want to fix something, fix that. –0–