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When we take something on faithwe are enfolding it into our imagination.We are saying “I am going to imagine this to be so–pretend this to be so–because I want it to be so.And I am going to tell myself that it is so,whether it is or not.”Since you can’t prove to me that it isn’tContinue reading “May 01, 2024 – B”

I can’t wait to be really old,things are getting more interesting by the day.The post previous to this oneis listed as “April 31, 2024.”As though there are 31 days in April.Made perfect sense to me.Yesterday.The more Right-brained I get,the less Left-brained I become,and living Right-brainedin a Left-brain worldis no way to get around.So, I’m backContinue reading “May 2024”

Do you see the old womanor the young maiden?Keep looking until you see both,and how you can’t see bothat the same time.You can only see one at a time,and know about the other one,switching back and forth eternally.Life is that way.We look and see one thing.We look again and see another thing.Death is where weContinue reading “May 01, 2024 – A”

What does thinking about what we think aboutkeep us from thinking about?We tend to repeat the same conversationsweek after week.When is the last time we had a new idea?A realization?What can you imagine doingthat would make you accessibleto your imagination?If you were to have a conversationwith me in your mind,what would we talk about?Imagine theContinue reading “April 31, 2024 – A”

No matter how we cut it,look at it,size it up,think about it,perceive it,etc.,it comes down to beingimmovably stuck in the Julie Andrews Dichotomy. As Mary Poppins it is,”Anything can happen if you let it!”As Maria von Trapp it is,”How do you solve a problem like Maria?””How do you keep a wave upon the sand?””How doContinue reading “April 30, 2024 – B”

We are never more than a slight perspective shift awayfrom having it made.Changing our mind about what is importantis all it takes.Reflecting on our motives for not doing thatuntil we come to new realizationsis the only thing standing between usand “a new world, Golda, a brand new world.”That is not asking too much. –0–

We live to see what we can get by with–just like Jesus,who was called “a glutton and a wine-bibber,”which was the term of the dayfor “beyond parental control.”Jesus was beyond anyone’s control,and his turning over the tables of the moneychangers during the high festival season of Passoverwas the last strawand got him crucified.That was aContinue reading “April 29, 2024 – A”

I took this picture in 2015because in 2014 (our first trip) I was so captivated by the scenethat I paid absolutely no attention to the process of photographing the sceneand being awestruck resulted in every photograph–and there be many–lacking a discernible point of focus.I wasn’t focused on focusing the camera!So we went back.Going back wasContinue reading “April 28, 2024 – B”

Our life is our path.How we live it is who we are.What we do with our life is who we are.What we do is who we are.”What I do is me–for that I came,”said Gerard Manley Hopkins,for all of us.What is it about your lifethat you are proud of?Do more of that.What is it aboutContinue reading “April 28, 2024 – A”

Our Psyche is a wonder of wonderswith depths untold,taking care of us from the beginningwith what we need when we need it,enabling us to engage the worldand its peoplewhile maintaining our own balance and harmonyand living to express/exhibit/serveour original natureand our inherent virtues/virtuositiesby sensing/seeing/hearing what is neededand knowing what is called forand responding to what’sContinue reading “April 27, 2024 – A”

We have to live as though everything hangs on how we live,because it does.We have to live as thougheverything mattersbecause everything matterson how we live.We have to live as though we careabout all of the things we should care aboutbecause when we don’t care forwhat needs us to care for it,it all goes to hellContinue reading “April 26, 2024 – A”

Nothing ever ends.There are no final outcomes.Everything is always “in process,”being transformed and convertedall the way.Growing up, you might say.World without end.Just “more like we are nowthan we were when we got here.”Picking up different accentsand attitudes all along.”Adjustment and accommodation, Kid,Adjustment and accommodation.” –0–