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November 30-A, 2022

My drift through the aging process appears to be away from activity and involvement, and toward observation, reflection, exploration, and playing with my life just to see what it can do, and what I can do with it. I don’t have any goals or intentions beyond being present and seeing what happens. Staying home andContinue reading “November 30-A, 2022”

November 29-B, 2022

The things that restore our soul are the essential things. The wasteland is everywhere. Oases are hard to find. When we stumble upon them, we need to mark them well, and return to them often– spending as much time in their presence as circumstances allow. What form does your yoga take? Where do you findContinue reading “November 29-B, 2022”

November 29-A, 2022

If you understand timing and can sense what is happening and know what is called for, the circumstances will reveal themselves to you in a way that will seem magical and mysterious, and you will find doors opening where there would not ordinarily be doors, and opportunities revealing themselves where otherwise there would be noContinue reading “November 29-A, 2022”

November 28-C, 2022

Trials and ordeals, Kid. Trials and ordeals. Trials and ordeals are eternal and everlasting– because our wants and desires, expectations and opinions are eternal and everlasting. A river never encounters a trial or an ordeal. A river just does what it does no matter what, doing what needs to be done to take its contextContinue reading “November 28-C, 2022”

November 28-B, 2022

Just go do what needs to be done. You will find all that you need to do it. It is the way. Time after time. Spontaneously arising out of nowhere, but, mostly out of your own sense of what needs to be done in order to do what needs to be done. Trust your ownContinue reading “November 28-B, 2022”

November 28-A, 2022

Meaning is ours to know when we see it. No one can tell us what is meaningful, or for how long. We are the sole authority in the matter. And if our life is low on meaning, it is because we are not doing our job. We are not living in the search for meaning.Continue reading “November 28-A, 2022”

November 27-B, 2022

There is no immunity, and we spend a major portion of our life making our peace with our vulnerabilities. Instability and uncertainty are just how it is upon the heaving waves of the wine dark sea. How are you coming with that? It helps to whine, moan and complain. Mope about and wallow in depressionContinue reading “November 27-B, 2022”

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”