Those who have known have been quite content to live out their lives chopping wood and carrying water, doing the day-to-day chores and taking care of the business at hand, doing what needed to be done, when, where and how it needed to be done in each situation as it arose as long as theirContinue reading “October 02-A, 2022”
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October 01-C, 2022
Getting what we want and having our way are the hallmarks of success and happiness. We know nothing of what we ought to want. We just want what we want as though wanting knows. The story goes that the tribe of Delaware Indians who traded Long Island for shiny beads and silver mirrors got whatContinue reading “October 01-C, 2022”
October 1-B, 2022
We have to know where we stand, what we stand for and what we stand against. And everybody else has to know it as well. Some Christians like to say “God isn’t a Democrat or a Republican.” Who would God vote for is the question. Who would God have you vote for is the otherContinue reading “October 1-B, 2022”
October 1-A, 2022
Our life is a string of coincidences and another string of luck intertwined and playing out, and what we make of it is our gift to the mix. It helps to have little in the way of expectations, agendas, plans, opinions, judgment, willfulness, demands and requirements. Being true to our essential nature and our innateContinue reading “October 1-A, 2022”
October, 1st Week, 2022
What are the meaningful things in your life? How many meaningful things do you do in a day? In a week? In a month? Our joy of life varies in direct proportion to the amount of meaning in our life. No meaning, no joy. You could look it up. Or, you could experiment with yourContinue reading “October, 1st Week, 2022”
September 30-B, 2022
We want that and don’t want to give up this to get it. “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too,” gets to the heart of the matter. The only way out of the morass is bearing the pain. How well–how consciously–how deliberately– how consistently–how utterly and completely– we bear the pain of beingContinue reading “September 30-B, 2022”
September 30-A, 2022
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”
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”
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