01 In my studied opinion, most of the people who are alive and have ever lived do/did so on the strength of diversion, distraction and denial. Which means they lived in the service of sex, drugs, alcohol and money to take their mind off their troubles and “pass a good time” while they waited toContinue reading “May 06, 2022”
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May 05, 2022
01 We need a base, anchoring us, providing stability, balance and harmony amid the upheavals and uncertainty of social and political unrest. Where do you go in time of trouble? The right kind of emptiness (Like the emptiness between breaths), stillness and silence do it for me. I close myself off from the noise, complexityContinue reading “May 05, 2022”
May 04, 2022
01 Something knows where to put the tripod. Or did, back when I used a tripod. Now, something knows where to stand, how to compose the image, when to take the picture. I don’t think about any of this. I simply listen for “Yes/No,” “Here/There,” “Now/Later”… It all begins with what catches my eye. IContinue reading “May 04, 2022”
May 03 B, 2022
The End of the 22-acre Woods The beginning of 480 single family dwellings plus a condo or two and all that comes with it, 40 feet to the north of where I live. Woopie. This machine is a tree-eater. It pushes trees over and grinds them up. It can eat the forest in a coupleContinue reading “May 03 B, 2022”
May 03, 2022
01 We don’t see anything just as it is. Everything carries our projection of itself “as it is to us” for us to inspect, examine and admire, or detest, in a “Just as I thought” kind of way. We see what we expect to see, and are rarely surprised, merely affirmed. And the few surprisesContinue reading “May 03, 2022”
May 02, 2022
01 What is stopping us from becoming neglected, abandoned, betrayed? We are the guardians of ourselves. We are the champions of our bodies, our lives. We owe fealty to our original nature and the virtues that are ours from birth. No knight in shinning armor’s oath of liege loyalty and filial devotion was greater thanContinue reading “May 02, 2022”
May, 2022
Curiosity is a super power. Asking all the questions that beg to be asked, saying all the things that cry out to be said, getting to the bottom of things that have no bottom, seeking, searching, knocking, inquiring, following hunches, looking for clues, sniffing out possibilities, seeing answers as the source of better questions, leadsContinue reading “May, 2022”
May 01, 2022
01 It all depends upon and flows from our doing the next thing that needs to be done, the way it needs to be done, when and where it needs to be done, because it needs to be done, for the simple joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it, with noContinue reading “May 01, 2022”
April 30, 2022
01 Fear holds us back. Desire pushes us ahead. These are the clashing rocks. Anger, jealousy, guilt, shame, greed, hatred, depression… These are the heaving waves. Between the rocks and the waves, we have too much to manage. And so it is said, “The world is too much with us, late and soon” (William Wordsworth).Continue reading “April 30, 2022”
April 29, 2022
01 It is perspective all the way down, and Mystery at the bottom. Or, as Lao Tzu liked to say, “Darkness within darkness, the gateway to mystery.” We will never make sense of it. All the explanations and theories get in the way of enjoying the experience of Mystery. Once we get that it isContinue reading “April 29, 2022”
April 28, 2022
01 There are millions of pregnant women around the world at this moment who cannot carry their pregnancy to term. I said CANNOT!!! There inability to carry their pregnancy to term trumps any right their fetus may have to life and any heartbeat or brainwave restrictions regarding when someone says “Life Begins.” It doesn’t matterContinue reading “April 28, 2022”
April 27, 2022
01 Finding the way forward is as easy as finding the thing that needs to be done here and now. If we can be right about that, we can be trusted to find the way forward simply by doing what needs to be done in each situation as it arises, when it needs to beContinue reading “April 27, 2022”