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February 15-A, 2023

We live out our lives, maintaining our relationships, and rising to meet the occasion as best we can, doing what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, enjoying what is to be enjoyed, grieving what must be grieved, “sunrise, sunset,” day by day, and letting that be that. FewContinue reading “February 15-A, 2023”

February 14-B, 2023

No one is here but us and our idea of what’s important and how we serve that idea in the time left for living. The clearer we are about our idea of what is important, and the closer to right our idea is the better it will be for everyone. We owe it to ourselvesContinue reading “February 14-B, 2023”

February 14-A, 2023

How we do something, say something is as important as what we do, say. When and where are as important as what and how. Doing the right thing in the right way in the right place at the right time is the complete package. And we do not do it by thinking about it. WeContinue reading “February 14-A, 2023”

February 13-B, 2023

We do too much that doesn’t matter. We are awash in entertaining pastimes and hyped-up triviality. Frivolous escapes drive us to distraction, which, of course, is the point. Diversion, distraction, denial are the three members of the godhead, the Holy Trinity of life in these times, and their favorite forms of engagement: Drugs/Sex/Alcohol/Money– pursuing them,Continue reading “February 13-B, 2023”

February 13-A, 2023

We’ve been going at this long enough that we should be better at it by now. I recommend that we start tomorrow at 6:00 AM experiencing our experiences. If my calculations are correct, that will make a real difference in the way we live our life. More reflection on our experience will result in aContinue reading “February 13-A, 2023”

February 12-B, 2023

Growing up is doing things we do not want to do. Things that go against the grain, that go against the flow, that disrupt the fluid ought-to-be-ness that we love about our life. Things like Gethsemane and Golgotha. And we sacrifice ourselves again, and die yet again. Again and again. Death and resurrection, Kid. DeathContinue reading “February 12-B, 2023”

February 12-A, 2023

I think all governments, and certainly the U.S. (The fascists are ridiculously without restraint and gleefully racist/sexist/obscene), needs to do more to regulate, oversee, enforce human rights throughout the land, all lands. Basic decency is not too much to ask/require. But how we get there is beyond any plan of action I can come upContinue reading “February 12-A, 2023”

February 11-B, 2023

Who we are and how we are in relation to what is and to what needs to be tells the tale we are here to tell by the way we live within the context and circumstances of our life in each situation as it arises beginning here/now. –0–

February 11-A, 2023

Our perspective is a superpower capable of transforming the world! Perspective is influenced/impacted by the 10,000 things, including where we have been, what has happened to us, what has failed to happen to us, and how we responded to it– which is a function of perspective! So, perspective forms/shapes/creates perspective! The key with perspective isContinue reading “February 11-A, 2023”

February 10-B, 2023

Circumstances give rise to circumstances, and what will be flows from– depends upon– what is and what has been. Karma/Flow/Momentum/Drift and Timing give us Here/Now the way earthquakes are the accumulated expression of stress and tension built up over time, or that flooding is rainfall and the loss of surface spongeing over time. Here/now isContinue reading “February 10-B, 2023”

February 10-A, 2023

I find this scene to be a beautiful rendition of a point of contact with the numinous/ineffable/radiance/etc. of life being aware of itself, and consider it to be a still life worthy of the term. I have watched deer and elk grazing in the late hours of the day, look up at the sunset andContinue reading “February 10-A, 2023”

February 09-C, 2023

Circumstances spawn/create/produce/beget/etc. circumstances. That’s all there is and ever has been. That is all there ever will be. We keep talking about “the beginning,” and “the end.” There is no beginning! There is no end! There is no outcome! One “outcome” leads to another set of circumstances with another “outcome,” ad nauseam. The “outcome” ofContinue reading “February 09-C, 2023”