People who always know what to do in any/every situation, are screwing things up for everybody. The right action appears out of nowhere, at just the right time as a reminder of the Mystery at work throughout the cosmos. We cannot calculate our way through mystery. The Way is not subject to reason, logic, analytics,Continue reading “September 04-B, 2022”
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September 04-A, 2022
Images have the ability to stop us and hold our attention for a moment, or longer, depending on, what? What stops us? What holds our attention? What stops you? What holds your attention? Pay attention to what commands your attention– to what catches your eye. What evokes your wonder? What charms you? Speaks to you?Continue reading “September 04-A, 2022”
September 03-C, 2022
Intending mercy and goodwill, kindness, generosity, compassion, graciousness, integrity and sincerity will do no harm. Living from the heart, with no stake in the outcome beyond doing the best we are capable of doing in each situation as it arises, without being profit driven, or gain/advantage obsessed, will go a long way toward peaceful accordContinue reading “September 03-C, 2022”
September 03-B, 2022
We don’t find it, it finds us. The motivation/interest/desire/energy to get up and do what needs us to do it. Our problem is not finding it, but ignoring it, dismissing it, discounting it, disregarding it, putting it off, laying it aside, rejecting it, refusing to have anything to do with it because it isn’t upContinue reading “September 03-B, 2022”
September 03-A, 2022
Settling into the moment, into the here/now, and just being here/now, as though there is no better place to be, and just doing here/now what needs to be done here/now, as though there is nothing better to do, is the way of the whale in the ocean, and the snake upon a rock, and aContinue reading “September 03-A, 2022”
September 02-D, 2022
Joseph Campbell asked, “How can one person get God into the heart of another person?” How can any person get God into their own heart? Praying? Reading the Bible? Reciting a catechism? Chanting The Hail Mary and The Our Father back to back? Campbell’s question is like asking, “How can one person enlighten another person?”Continue reading “September 02-D, 2022”
September 02-C, 2022
The right kind of emptiness is easy to achieve. Start with stillness and silence. Empty yourself of everything you find there. That is all there is to it. Now, you are as empty as the space between breaths. Be there, emptying yourself of everything that interferes with the creative space between thoughts/ images/ memories/ fears/Continue reading “September 02-C, 2022”
September 02-B, 2022
Our relationship with nature determines/reflects all of our relationships. Honoring/worshiping nature sets the tone, establishes the rhythm, puts everything else in place around that. Contempt for is exploitation of the natural world, and reflects contempt for and exploitation of all of our other relationships. Nature’s place in our life reflects/exhibits/expresses all you need to knowContinue reading “September 02-B, 2022”
September 02-A, 2022
Buttons by Jim Dollar The buttons were everywhere. The contents of the entire box had exploded across the room, covering floor, chairs and the potted plastic fern. “The little bastard!” she thought. “I’ll just have to kill him. Any jury in the land would acquit me. It isn’t as though I haven’t told him. ‘BeContinue reading “September 02-A, 2022”
September 01-C, 2022
After Ed’s Death By Jim Dollar Ah, the Ache! It is so important to not outlive the ache! I would raise a toast to Ed, if I had a Mimosa in hand: “Here’s to the Ache! And to what it takes to embrace the Ache– and to keep it alive within!” There are people scatteredContinue reading “September 01-C, 2022”
September 01-B, 2022
We do not know what we are doing, or where we are going, or why it is like it is and not some other way instead. We’re just trying to make the best of it, without knowing what the best of it is, and we settle for smooth and easy, hoping to get ahead, whateverContinue reading “September 01-B, 2022”
September 01-A, 2022
Emptiness, stillness and silence are the sources of the future, our own and that of the cosmos. What does not come from emptiness, stillness and silence, comes from chaos and anarchy, and people trying to force their way through the world, as though they know where they are going, when all they know is whatContinue reading “September 01-A, 2022”
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