The black trunks in the image are the trees’ attempt to heal themselves where elk have peeled away and eaten bark in the winter months. Both trees and elk are doing their best with what they have to work with to make things work as well as they can. You and I are right inContinue reading “May 06-A, 2023”
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May 05-B, 2023
When Carl Jung was asked if he believed in God, he replied: “I do not believe. I know.” I would have said, “I do not believe in believing.” “God” as we have been taught of “God” exists only as the production/projection of human beings, forced onto us by an orthodox priesthood with their livelihood atContinue reading “May 05-B, 2023”
May 05-A, 2023
What stirs your interest? Piques your curiosity? Ignites your passion? Catches your eye? Calls your name? Encourages your participation? How many of those things are in a day? A week? A month? How can you restructure your life to include more of those things in your days, weeks, months? If you are plodding through tooContinue reading “May 05-A, 2023”
May 04-B, 2023
The worst thing that ever happens to us can also be among the best things that ever happens to us. Our worst experiences can be our best experiences. Bad can also be good. Good can also be bad. Things are not one way only. We have to expand our mind to take into account theContinue reading “May 04-B, 2023”
May 04, 2023 – A
There is nothing we cannot deny. Denial keeps us where we are. If it weren’t for denial, where might we be? Denial is a superpower in a negative sense. Recovering alcoholics know about the power of denial– and the power of looking denial in the eye, facing the truth of the legitimate pain of life,Continue reading “May 04, 2023 – A”
May 03, 2023 -B
The culture/the world is in hot pursuit of the perfect means With no idea of an end worthy of it. I wish I remembered the name of the photographer who said, “The more equipment you have, the fewer pictures you take.” Fine clothes and tattered lives. We draw the wrong lines in the wrong places.Continue reading “May 03, 2023 -B”
May 03, 2023 – A
Meeting the day without expectations, agendas, opinions, intentions, demands, attitudes, judgments, plans, designs, programs, and ideas for the way things should be, is to be ready for anything, except, perhaps, a test on any of the above. To walk unprepared into the day, just as we are, as ones thus come, waiting to see whatContinue reading “May 03, 2023 – A”
May 02, 2023 – B
This figure represents for me the essential qualities we are each/all called to exhibit on our way along The Way. The meditative posture suggests emptiness, stillness and silence–essential preparation for standing up and meeting each situation as it arises. The golden color suggests “Om Mani Padme Hum,” “The jewel is in the lotus” which spontaneouslyContinue reading “May 02, 2023 – B”
May 02, 2023 – A
We make it up as we go, dancing with what the day brings, maintaining our balance and harmony as best we can, looking for what needs to be done and doing it using the gifts of our original nature and our innate virtues/specialties/things we do best and enjoy doing most, guided by what resonates withContinue reading “May 02, 2023 – A”
May 01, 2023 – C
May 01, 2023 – B
What’s it mean? What’s it matter? Who’s to say? How do they know? It comes down to us and this moment, here/now. Are we going to rise to the occasion, or not? Are we going to step into this moment and do right by it, or not? Why? does not matter. Of all the thingsContinue reading “May 01, 2023 – B”
May 01, 2023 – A
Circumstances are always coming along, crashing into circumstances already in place, creating new circumstances on the spot. Circumstances have been here from the start. There never was a time before circumstances. Circumstances generate circumstances as a perpetual motion machine, never stopping, always going, spinning out more circumstances at days end than there were at theContinue reading “May 01, 2023 – A”
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