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February 09, 2021

04 We are not free to want just anything. We are bound to want what we want whether we want to or not. We live in bondage to our wants as slaves to their master. Freedom is found in freely doing what is called for whether we want to or not. Since we are alreadyContinue reading “February 09, 2021”

February 08, 2021

03 We are never far away from, “Here we are. Now what?” But, we are rarely there long enough. We rush past “Now what?” to “Anywhere But THIS!” It’s the not-knowing we despise. Or fear. Or despise because we fear. Not-knowing is the worst imaginable torture. We are here, now because we could not bearContinue reading “February 08, 2021”

February 07, 2021

02 Doing the right thing, in the right place, at the right time, in the right way is all there is to it, but. Who is to say what “right” is? We are! And, there is a catch: We have to be right about it. The trick is that “right” cannot be spelled out, defined,Continue reading “February 07, 2021”

February 06, 2021

We are looking for what is meaningful when we take up The Quest, and go forth in search of what exactly we do not know. We only know “this” is not it. Because “this” is not meaningful. And we cannot think up meaningful. We cannot decide what will be meaningful. Meaningful is like falling inContinue reading “February 06, 2021”

February 05, 2021

03 Our life is an end in itself. Life is an end in itself. We live to be alive– fully, completely, wonderfully, fascinatingly, joyfully alive. We do not live to get anything, or anywhere. Where do we think we are going? The experience of living is all life has to offer. We think it isContinue reading “February 05, 2021”

February 04, 2021

01 Fragile and vulnerable, we spend our life wishing it weren’t so, pretending it isn’t, hiding, lying, denying, building walls, shopping malls, nothing to it, money will do it, power, too, delusional, institutional, wrapped in our refusal to be who we are, where we are, when we are, how we are, fragile and vulnerable, allContinue reading “February 04, 2021”

February 03, 2021

04 James Hillman said, “If I do what I really must, it will kill me, yet, if I don’t, I will die.” We get to choose the kind of death we will die. Our choice is “the secret cause” (James Joyce) of our dying. The life we live is the direct consequence of our death.Continue reading “February 03, 2021”

February 02, 2021

02 Before retirement, I spent my time tending matters that I haven’t tended since retirement. They were all necessary aspects of my employment, and I did them well enough to not know where I stopped what I did for a living started, but when I stopped doing it for a living, my life became myContinue reading “February 02, 2021”

February 01, 2021

04 I retired on February 1, 2011. Today marks the 10th anniversary of my retirement. They have been the ten best years of my life. Upon retirement, I took a vow of silence and solitude, moved to the woods with my wife and had no social interaction apart from our immediate family (3 daughters andContinue reading “February 01, 2021”

February 2021

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January 31, 2021

05 What do you do for the sake of doing it alone? Live to expand the list. When there is nothing in it for you beyond doing what you are doing for the sake of doing it alone, you are engaged in living for the experience, the expression, the wonder of being alive to lifeContinue reading “January 31, 2021”

January 30, 2021

02 Making our peace with our life and living in the service of what is meaningful for us is a reasonable and attainable goal for each of us. Most of us want more than that. We don’t know what it would be except that it would be more than that. And the distance between whatContinue reading “January 30, 2021”