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January 18-C, 2023

We could talk about “God’s will for our life,” and we could talk about “Our life’s will for itself.” And we could wonder, “Where does the line lie between That Which Has Always Been Called ‘God,’ and us?” And I would say, “There is no line!” I would also add, “We are as close toContinue reading “January 18-C, 2023”

January 18-B, 2023

Anybody who is having a time of it is failing to manage their conflicts/contradictions, and it has gotten the best of them. Happens all of the time. Everywhere. You’d think we would do a better job of instructing people in the way of conflict/contradiction management. We send them to jail or therapy, and go rightContinue reading “January 18-B, 2023”

January 18-A, 2023

What’s your specialty? The things you do best and enjoy most. My specialty is looking out windows. And articulating what’s what. I earned a living with the articulating part, but that doesn’t happen without the windows part, so, there is a sense in which I earned a living with that, too. Puts me in aContinue reading “January 18-A, 2023”

January 17-D, 2023

This is the third way of representing/presenting the same scene (Refer to the two previous images in this series). Which way is it really? None of the three! The “real scene” was entirely different, related only by being in the same general area at the time I was there. My point is the multiplicity ofContinue reading “January 17-D, 2023”

January 17-C, 2023

Sit with anything long enough and you will see it differently over time. Which way is it? We are bitten shortly after birth by the One Way Only Way Of Being Bug. We see everything as this or that. Up or down. Right or wrong. Good or bad/evil… Compare the most recent two posted images,Continue reading “January 17-C, 2023”

January 17-B, 2023

We live best when we live consciously learning how to balance our contradictions, polarities, opposite tendencies pulling us in different directions. On the one hand this, and on the other hand that. It is like that with all of us all of the time. The place of conscious awareness is to make the peace andContinue reading “January 17-B, 2023”

January 17-A, 2023

We have a goal: To live aligned with ourselves, in sync with our heart, our nature and the virtues that are unique (As in, “Among the virtues of this old mare, are her gentle way with children, and her smooth gait when carrying them) to us– as unique as our fingerprints and iris cones– withContinue reading “January 17-A, 2023”

January 16-B, 2023

Responding to the occasion in ways appropriate to the occasion opens the way to being at one with the moment, in sync with the time and place of our living, aligned with the rhythm and flow of life here/now, doing what is called for, where, when and how it is called for– the essence ofContinue reading “January 16-B, 2023”

January 15-C, 2023

Today is my brother David’s happy birthday, and I am honoring him with this gift to you–it is the link to my Flickr album of oil paint rendered images. There are 18 pages in the album. Each page has a slideshow icon. Click it and enjoy the show! (You may have to hit the “backContinue reading “January 15-C, 2023”

January 16-A, 2023

Joseph Campbell said, “Living an authentic life out of the spontaneity of one’s own heart– when based on compassion and not possession and conquest– transforms the wasteland into, you might say, into a ‘land flowing with milk and honey.'” It becomes a land of blessings and wonder when we wake up to our own heart,Continue reading “January 16-A, 2023”

January 15-B, 2023

Living in the moment and seeing what is to be seen there is a key aspect of being awake/aware/alive, and a function of emptiness/stillness/silence/ balance/harmony, being aligned with the Tao and responding appropriately to each situation as it arises. Our breathing is an anchor point connecting us to the moment, as is remembering to beContinue reading “January 15-B, 2023”

January 15-A, 2023

We want and don’t want. Our life revolves around, flows from, consists of nothing but, wanting. We do not know how to live without wanting. If we did not live in the sevice of getting–and getting more of– what we want, we would not know what to do with our life. We never ask, “HowContinue reading “January 15-A, 2023”