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November 27-A, 2022

We think it would be great if we could write the script for our life. What would really be great is letting our life have the reins and allowing it to show us what it has in mind. Just getting out of the way and permitting our life to live itself. Having no agenda orContinue reading “November 27-A, 2022”

November 26-D, 2022

Jesus said, “Do not throw your pearls before swine, and do not give to dogs what is holy!” And the Syrophoenician woman said, “Even dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the table, and it rains on the just and on the pigs alike. and the sun shines on the just and the pigs alike.”Continue reading “November 26-D, 2022”

November 26-C, 2022

We have all heard the truism, “Everything happens for a reason.” And the reason is always what happened just before the thing that happened happened. You had the wreck because you were texting, or the other driver was, for example. Not so that something could happen that would not have happened if you hadn’t hadContinue reading “November 26-C, 2022”

November 26-B, 2022

Photography is a life-long lesson in waiting for the time to be right– and knowing when it is. Timing is everything. All the time. Everywhere. The Times, They Are A-Changing. Constantly. Even when it’s the same old same old wherever we look. It takes a lot of looking to be able to see. Too manyContinue reading “November 26-B, 2022”

November 26-A, 2022

Life’s hazards– moving, sickness, death, the death of close friends and family members, getting old past self-care… the list goes on– tosses us about, out of our comfortable routines, away from our path, inside out, upside down… And it takes a lot of emptiness, stillness and silence to re-orient ourselves “upon the heaving waves ofContinue reading “November 26-A, 2022”

November 25-B, 2022

There is nothing more to it than this: 1) See what’s happening in each situation as it arises. 2) Be right about what needs to be done in response. 3)Do it. 4) Repeat through all situations as they arise. All the ethical, moral, spiritual, theological, philosophical orations through the ages go into the burning barrelContinue reading “November 25-B, 2022”

November 25-A, 2022

It is all up to us– waking up, growing up, getting up and doing what needs to be done… No one can do it for us, or talk us into it. We are quite on our own. Sizing things up. Seeing what we look at. Realizing what’s what and taking up the work of transformingContinue reading “November 25-A, 2022”

November 24-C, 2022

We are to our lives as a river is to its channel. The river cuts the channel as the channel shapes and restricts the river. Who is in charge, in control? The circumstances are in control. How much rainfall? For how long? How often? The river cannot be separated from its channel, or channel fromContinue reading “November 24-C, 2022”

November 24-B, 2022

Our memories shape us, creating a background tone for our life and setting us up for a future conditioned by our past no matter what we do there. Living to redeem our past or to repeat it are equally bound to it, and we cannot step away from how we got here to just beContinue reading “November 24-B, 2022”

November 24-A, 2022

A national day of thanksgiving is a good idea, reminding us of the central place gratitude and appreciation have in the life of every human being, humbling us and grounding us in the realization of our utter dependence upon the benevolent grace of things quite beyond our control. Call it “being lucky,” and remember thatContinue reading “November 24-A, 2022”

November 23-B, 2022

I don’t know you as well as I would like, but. I know this much about you: You HATE changing your mind about what is important! Everybody does. That is the only thing standing between us and absolute bliss. Nothing matters in states of bliss. Everything is wonderful just as it is. When we beginContinue reading “November 23-B, 2022”

November 23-A, 2022

Compromise and negotiation are the tools most useful in the transition process from duality to unity. Generally the process is co-opted in favor of disappearing the opposition, not negotiating and compromising with it. The heretics were burned at the stake, or tortured to death, or fed to the lions, hung, drowned, run out of town,Continue reading “November 23-A, 2022”