The key to photography is taking a lot of pictures and knowing what you like and don’t like about each one– then working to duplicate/deepen/expand what you like, and stop doing what you don’t like. The mystery about photography is learning to see what makes your little heart sing and your little toes dance. WhenContinue reading “September 30-A, 2022”
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September 29-C, 2022
It is an inside job all the way. We think it is about rearranging/ changing/transforming the world and other people to suit ourselves, when it is about adjusting ourselves to adapt to, mesh with, our surroundings. We align ourselves with, live in accord with, the natural flow– the Tao–of time and place, and allow thingsContinue reading “September 29-C, 2022”
September 29-B, 2022
The way we see things impacts everything. You would think that we would go to the trouble of trying to see things as they are. But, when you consider how far out of the way we would have to be in order to do that, it begins to make sense that we wouldn’t go anywhereContinue reading “September 29-B, 2022”
September 29-A, 2022
When “the world is too much with us late and soon” (William Wordsworth), we have to recognize it and step back. And when we cannot step back, we have to recognize that, and let it be, because it is, and live with as it is, knowing in a “This cannot be helped, so let’s doContinue reading “September 29-A, 2022”
September 28-B, 2022
We live to find the still point, the safe harbor, of balance and harmony. The catch is that there are no steady states of life and being. Now we have it, now we don’t. Controlling the wobbles will have to do. Emptiness, stillness and silence can help with that. Reducing noise and complexity. Diminishing vulnerabilityContinue reading “September 28-B, 2022”
September 28-A, 2022
We don’t have enough wonderful in our life. We ought to make it our business to increase the Wonderful Quotient in each week. It may be too much to ask of each day, but adding wonderful to each week ought to be a doable task. We owe it to ourselves to make the effort. JustContinue reading “September 28-A, 2022”
September 27-C, 2022
Enlightenment is not a matter of thinking anything up, but of realizing what just occurred to us and connecting that with how we have always been told things are by those who know and are right about it. Who cannot tell us anything we don’t know when we know what we know. Which is toContinue reading “September 27-C, 2022”
September 27-B, 2022
Listen to your nighttime dreams. All of our nighttime dreams are saying “This is the way it is with you and your life presently. What are you going to do about it?” Dreams speak symbolically. If you have lost your keys, are in a car that you cannot stop or control, are late for anContinue reading “September 27-B, 2022”
September 27-A, 2022
Start anywhere, any time. The path begins with the next step, in any direction. Just start walking with your eyes and ears open, being aware of everything. There is nothing more to enlightenment than realization, and there is always more to realize than we realize, so we are always being enlightened, we are always wakingContinue reading “September 27-A, 2022”
September 26-A, 2022
Contriving to have our way is the root of all of our problems today. Any day. Every day. “I came not to be served, but to serve, and to give my life to set others free.” Free to be what? To do what? To be who they need to be, doing what needs to beContinue reading “September 26-A, 2022”
September, 4th Week, 2022
The less we have at stake in any situation, the freer we are to choose the path that needs to be chosen. We avoid conflicts of interest when our interest is in the good of the situation as a whole. What is called for here/now? What works best here/now? What is crying out to beContinue reading “September, 4th Week, 2022”
September 25-B, 2022
It begins with the right attitude. And wanders, strolls and dawdles from there finding its way among the 10,000 things riding the wind that blows where it will on the adventure of life and being. The church, if it would, would have an automatic corner on the spiritual development market, fill the emptiest niche inContinue reading “September 25-B, 2022”
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