01 To be in the Flow is to be so with what is happening and to know so spontaneously what needs to happen that we are one with the movement of the moment, as dancers are one with each other, and one with the music, and one with the dance, so that neither the dancers,Continue reading “May 10, 2022”
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May 09-B, 2022
01 Here is a link ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8maYNgf_afA ) to a performance of my favorite Bluegrass/Gospel group who also connects me with the Tao flowing through all things to carry us all through “the Great Flow of Circumstances” to balance and harmony, sincerity and integrity, spirit, energy and vitality at the core of life and being.Continue reading “May 09-B, 2022”
May 09, 2022
01 Perspective for me is one of the deep mysteries of personality. We have depths we cannot probe. Things are always rising up to surprise, shock and confound us. Dreams befuddle us. Instant reactions to events catch us off-guard. Why we see things as we do, why we think what we think is important, whyContinue reading “May 09, 2022”
May 08, 2022
01 René Descartes’ classic, “I think, therefore I am,” was flipped by a guy at a bar in Minneapolis, “I think, therefore I think I am.” Solidifying me in my already solid opinion that there are no proofs for verifying the reality of reality. It’s an illusion we keep afloat among ourselves in the absenceContinue reading “May 08, 2022”
May 07, 2022
01 Letting the situation elicit, evoke, our response to it instead of forcing a predetermined way of acting on it based on what we want to achieve is not conducive to the balance, harmony and flow of the situation and its possibilities. We cannot have a formula in mind for producing the life we wantContinue reading “May 07, 2022”
May 06, 2022
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”
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”