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October 31-A, 2022

There is what we do to pay the bills, and there is what we pay the bills to do. What do you pay the bills to do? What do you live to do? Doing what is life itself for you? Spending your money in the right ways is important, and spending your time in theContinue reading “October 31-A, 2022”

October 30-B, 2022

What do you need to have everything you need to do what needs to be done in each situation as it arises– for the joy of doing it, and the satisfaction of having done it? What do you need to have everything you need?

October 30-A, 2022

We make the best of it for no reason. Or, we make up our own reasons, and make the best of it for that. Making the best of it brings forth the best in us, and that is an excellent reason for doing it. For doing the best we can, and making sure it isContinue reading “October 30-A, 2022”

October 29-B, 2022

Oscar Wilde said, “A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.” Who talks constantly without saying anything. Robert Burns could have had them in mind with his, “O, wad some Power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as ithers see us!” Seeing ourselves clearly, accurately, just as weContinue reading “October 29-B, 2022”

October 29-A, 2022

Our work is that of changing our mind about what’s important until we get it right in each situation as it arises, and do that, no matter what, when, where and how it needs to be done, letting that be that as we move on into the next situation. Not keeping score, not remembering outcomes,Continue reading “October 29-A, 2022”

October 28-B, 2022

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west with no objections regarding the sameness of its ritual. The tides and the seasons come and go as though for the first time every time. We whine about the same-old-same-old, and thirst for the novelty of the latest thing. Spare me of us! IContinue reading “October 28-B, 2022”

October 28-A, 2022

Whose approval do you need? Whose favor are you trying to earn? Why not live out of your own authority and let that be enough? These three fawns will find their way by listening to their own instincts and natural inclinations and hanging out with other deer. They have all they need. We have allContinue reading “October 28-A, 2022”

October 27-B, 2022

Knowing and serving what needs to be done in each situation as it arises is complicated by 10,000 things, which can be categorized as noise and complexity. Reducing the noise and complexity at work in our life is the first thing that needs to be done. We reduce it by being aware of it andContinue reading “October 27-B, 2022”

October 27-A, 2022

We have lost the “we-ness” that holds things together. There is no generic “we” that we can count on being there, anywhere. Who comprises the “we” we call we? Who are we talking about when we talk about “we”? I’m talking about the fifteen, or so, regular readers/responders who drop in to see what IContinue reading “October 27-A, 2022”

October 26-B, 2022

There is nothing wrong with living in protest of, and in resignation to, the way things are. They could be better in 10,000 ways, some of which we control, or could have controlled, or might have controlled, or prevented, and here we are, living with what is to be lived with, in the time leftContinue reading “October 26-B, 2022”

October 26-A, 2022

Everybody has their own story/stories, their own way of looking at things, thinking about things… It’s a wonder. I cherish a restaurant filled with people living their own life, more or less. And a movie theater, a football stadium, a continent, a planet… I want to listen to each of them as they say what’sContinue reading “October 26-A, 2022”

October 25-B, 2022

We are always awaiting the next thing, wondering how we will respond, waiting to see, trusting ourselves to pull another rabbit out of the hat and surprise ourselves again with the range of our repertoire and the depth of our capabilities. We are amazing. First grade–remember that? Talk about a shock to our system! YankingContinue reading “October 25-B, 2022”