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August 05, 2021

01 We like our heroes to be without vulnerability. How heroic is that??? You couldn’t help being a hero without vulnerability! Anybody could be Jesus as God’s only son. Try it without those super genes! Different story. And while we are on that story, what is it about God demanding the sacrifice of (his) onlyContinue reading “August 05, 2021”

August 04, 2021

01 How do you maintain/restore your balance and harmony? How do you serve/sustain your spirit, energy, vitality? These are the five indicators of a life well-lived. Without them in place, you are faking it, grinding it out, looking for escape and refuge, hoping for deliverance, wishing you were dead, or that somebody else was. TheContinue reading “August 04, 2021”

August 03-B, 2021

01 Each situation gives rise to the next situation, which makes each situation the key to all that follows. Doing this situation the way it needs to be done provides the situation flowing from this one with a proper footing to be what it needs to be for the next one, and so on toContinue reading “August 03-B, 2021”

August 03, 2021

01 For forty years and six months I talked to people about God (I was a minister in the Presbyterian Church [USA]). There was a problem. Most of the people who paid me to talk about God, didn’t want me to say anything they hadn’t already heard. “Why don’t you talk to us about thingsContinue reading “August 03, 2021”

August 02, 2021

01 Your conflicts are killing you. The typical way we deal with conflicts is killing us. We typically deny them, run from them, escape them, ignore them, pretend they don’t exist, and create conflicts trying to get away from our conflicts. Conflicts multiply that way. Pot and alcohol are making things worse by helping usContinue reading “August 02, 2021”

August 01, 2021

01 In any situation, there is what needs to be done and what needs not to be done. All we have to do is be right about which is which, and do what needs to be done, without a thought for what is in it for us. Our place is to be what the situationContinue reading “August 01, 2021”

August 2021

This is the place holder for the images I will post during the month of August in 2021. I hope you will revisit the site during the month, and find things you like here.

July 31, 2021

01 We can’t live fifteen minutes without taking sides. Generally, that would mean taking our side against all others. This is the baby screaming to be fed. It’s always something. Wanting this, not wanting that. My Way Now! There must be cultures where this is not the case, perhaps where the baby’s needs are anticipated,Continue reading “July 31, 2021”

July 30, 2021

01 Get fully vaccinated and wear a mask! It’s like wearing a seat belt. It’s like wearing a shirt and shoes when you go shopping. It’s like not smoking in restaurants and shops, etc. that prohibit smoking. It’s like driving on the right side of the road. It’s like stopping on red and going onContinue reading “July 30, 2021”

July 29, 2021

01 When the lion lies down with the lamb only one of them gets up. That’s nature for you. Nature doesn’t play favorites, or take sides. “The big fish eat the little fish, and the little fish swim through the netting that hauls the big fish to the cannery.” That’s the way nature works. NoContinue reading “July 29, 2021”

July 28, 2021

01 It takes such silence– such being quiet and noticing what is in the quiet with us. What is right now. Right here. It takes such narrowing down. Leaving the drama at the door. The constantly looping tape of what happened when to whom, and whose fault it is, and noise, noise, noise… Remove theContinue reading “July 28, 2021”

July 27, 2021

01 Something happens and we decide what it means and respond in some way that we think is appropriate. The fulcrum lies with our interpretation and response. We control, or strongly influence, how things play out by what we do next. We lever the future into being with our response to what just happened. WeContinue reading “July 27, 2021”