We keep hoping to find it, when it is all a matter of being it. We bring it forth. We do not stumble upon it, dig it out of the ground, find the buried treasure. We are the treasure. The treasure is buried in us! We have to turn the light around and get busyContinue reading “November 01-A, 2022”
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November, 1st Week, 2022
It is never any more difficult than stepping into the day and doing what needs to be done there. We clutter things up with plans and agendas, willing this, wanting that, wondering “When is it going to be our turn?”– waiting for something to happen that will be like a gift from some fairy godmother,Continue reading “November, 1st Week, 2022”
October 31-B, 2022
There have been wrongs without reckoning throughout the history of the species. Bearing witness to injustice is all that is left to mark the occasions and call out the offenses of all crimes against humanity, from the beginning until now. It would take the rest of time, just naming them. There needs to be aContinue reading “October 31-B, 2022”
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”
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