03 What does wanting know? Wanting is what got us here! Look around. Take it all in. This is what wanting can do. Think it will get better if we just keep on wanting more? Not! Wanting digs holes no one can live in. We want ourselves into places we can’t get backed out of.Continue reading “January 02, 2021”
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January 01, 2021
02 Democracy is a fair shake for everyone. Equal rights under the law. No racism. No sexism. No misogyny. No homophobia. No favoritism. No prejudice. No discrimination. Etc. All people enjoy equality, and no special interests are catered to. Nobody threatens the peace and security of anybody else. Everyone minds their own business and staysContinue reading “January 01, 2021”
December 31, 2020
04 We do not know what to do about many things, and we have no control over many more things, but this moment, here and now, demands our presence and our response. All of our anxiety and anguish over what will happen can be set aside for this moment right here, right now, and weContinue reading “December 31, 2020”
December 30, 2020
04 The Tao te Ching observes, Water doesn’t force its way, water finds its way. The same source favors having no agenda beyond knowing what is called for and doing it the way it needs to be done, at the time it needs to be done, and then, letting nature take its course into theContinue reading “December 30, 2020”
December 29, 2020
06 Balance and harmony are not steady states of being. Riding a bicycle is controlling the wobbles. Living a life is like that, only trickier. The natural order is chaotic. That is where we come in. We keep Yin and Yang within their traces, with neither getting the upper hand. Anything that is too muchContinue reading “December 29, 2020”
December 28, 2020
03 We all possess a super weapon that is well within our reach, yet far exceeds our grasp. It is simply-and-simultaneously-impossibly being mindfully aware of what is happening and what needs to happen in response in each situation as it arises, and how we might help meet that need with the gifts/virtues/characteristics/ genius/original nature thatContinue reading “December 28, 2020”
December 27, 2020
04 Here we are. Now what? The relationship between/among the individual and the collective required to produce and maintain, oversee and steward, meaningful change for the good of the whole– the whole earth– is governed by what? Who does what to whom, when, where, how? The Tao is doing the right thing in the rightContinue reading “December 27, 2020”
January 2021
This is the parent page for the posts during the month of January, 2021.
2021-A
This is the parent page for the first quarter of 2021. I hope you like what you find here, and may 2021 be a blessing to all who know a blessing when they see one! We are in a hurry for things to be as we want them to be. Magic wands were invented toContinue reading “2021-A”
December 26, 2020
04 Our life is uniquely equipped to lead us to the heart of what matters most. The problem is that we have our own ideas about what that is. And our life has to get us to abandon our idea of what matters most and to embrace our life’s idea of what matters most, andContinue reading “December 26, 2020”
December 25, 2020
04 Martha Graham premiered Lamentation on January 8, 1930. You can participate in her dance here: Hers was/is the only appropriate response to her times and ours. Metaphors express what words cannot say. The most important things cannot be said. The deepest things cannot be said. The truest things cannot be said. Yet we haveContinue reading “December 25, 2020”
December 24, 2020
01 It is Christmas Eve. A wonderful time for re-evaluating your relationship with your life. We know all about what needs to be changed about the world. What needs to be changed about you? About your relationship with you? About your relationship with the world? It is a week until New Year’s Eve. The NewContinue reading “December 24, 2020”
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