We have to find ways of telling our story– of saying out loud, or written out, what is so about us– of saying what must be said. We have to “go there.” This is the primary function of psychotherapy, allowing/forcing people to tell their story, who they are, what they are about, what is theirsContinue reading “October 17-B, 2020”
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October, 3rd Week, 2022
This is the first day in the new house, and every family member– me, my wife and our three daughters– are exhausted by the trauma of buying/selling/moving. And it has been the best experience of my life. Like the Cyclops was for Ulysses, so moving 25 minutes and 13 miles away, to be within aContinue reading “October, 3rd Week, 2022”
October 17-A, 2022
Circumstances have a mind of their own. We are awash upon a sea of circumstances. A pandemic comes along, global warming washes away the world, fascism becomes a thing, Republicans threaten to end civil rights and health care… and it all boiled up seemingly out of nowhere, but there was a long build-up of apparentlyContinue reading “October 17-A, 2022”
October 16-B, 2022
Cooperation, coordination, being on the same page, or, at least, in the same book, makes life possible, even enjoyable. Where do you experience something akin to this in your life? And where do you experience being alone against the world? “Community” means abandoning yourself at the door, putting on your corporate face, and thinking/doing whatContinue reading “October 16-B, 2022”
October 16-A, 2022
What is the origin of the motivation to do what is necessary to be a life-long student of the moment, of the here/now? The Buddha sat under the Bo Tree until enlightenment dawned. Jesus went to the cross rather than not be true to himself. Why? What motivated them to be so single-minded in theirContinue reading “October 16-A, 2022”
October 15-B, 2022
If your life isn’t what you want it to be, it is because you want it to be something it is not capable of being– and are pushing, forcing, shaping, compelling it to be what you want it to be and not cooperating with, listening to, seeing, hearing, knowing, comprehending, assisting, serving, doing what yourContinue reading “October 15-B, 2022”
October 15-A, 2022
Staying out of each other’s way, and trusting the other to take care of their own business would go a long way toward peace on earth. It may wrap it up and tie it in a bow. Who is minding your business these days? Whose business are you minding? “Everybody in their own life, andContinue reading “October 15-A, 2022”
October 14-B, 2022
I start with the assumption– which is more than belief, and more on the order of perceived reality than faith in, or trust that, it may be so– that we all are always in the immediate presence of the anchor stone, the still point of the turning world, the axis mundi, the world axis, groundingContinue reading “October 14-B, 2022”
October 14-A, 2022
In every situation there is what needs to be done and what does not need to be done. Nature appears to be particularly attuned to what needs to be done here/now. A lot of that has to do with waiting for something to nudge things along toward something else, doing that and waiting some more.Continue reading “October 14-A, 2022”
October 13-B, 2022
When Jesus told his disciples, “You must increase and I must decrease,” he was saying, “It’s all up to you, now. You each have to be like the wind that blows where it will!” There is no unified faith. No corporate conception of how things ought to be. We each have our own sense ofContinue reading “October 13-B, 2022”
October 13-A, 2022
Letting things be what they need to be, and listening, looking, watching, seeing, feeling, sensing, knowing, doing what that is is an amazing practice in and of itself. Where does thinking come in? Not very high on the list. Thinking has to do with contriving, scheming, posturing, positioning, engineering, orchestrating, devising, concocting, you know, likeContinue reading “October 13-A, 2022”
October 12-B, 2022
Our perceptions are our impressions, our understandings, our interpretations, our assumptions, our inferences, our conclusions regarding apparent aspects of reality. My perceptions of a mound of dirt near the patio of our next house on an inspection tour with the HOA president, matched his when he identified it as a fire ant bed and beganContinue reading “October 12-B, 2022”
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