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Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?

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Category Archives: January, 2022

October 30-A, 2022

We make the best of it for no reason. Or, we make up our own reasons, and make the best of it for that. Making the best of it brings forth the best in us, and that is an excellent reason for doing it. For doing the best we can, and making sure it isContinue reading “October 30-A, 2022”

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August 16-B, 2022

Free to sound like everyone, wearing the same tone of red, chanting the same chants, thinking the same thoughts, bound to the same hates and fears, free to vote in unison, and to spit on the flag by standing for the flag by refusing to stand for what the flag stands for… how free isContinue reading “August 16-B, 2022”

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April 27, 2022

01 Finding the way forward is as easy as finding the thing that needs to be done here and now. If we can be right about that, we can be trusted to find the way forward simply by doing what needs to be done in each situation as it arises, when it needs to beContinue reading “April 27, 2022”

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January 31, 2022

01 What springs to mind when I ask you, “What springs to mind?” Psyche works that way. Things springing to mind have their source in psyche’s on-going endeavor to get our attention. The natural world works on things springing to mind. How do I know that? It just sprang to mind. I evaluated it, decidedContinue reading “January 31, 2022”

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January 29, 2022

01 I resonate with some people, and never connect with others. I see that as an indication/reflection of “where we are in our life.” Of “where we have been, and what happened to us, and what we have done with that.” The things that happen to us impact the way we see things, interpret things,Continue reading “January 29, 2022”

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January 28, 2022

01 The difference between having a way and having to have our way is the difference between being on the way and being off it. Having a way without having to have it is having direction and purpose without having to go that way and do that thing. Things come up. Things happen. We haveContinue reading “January 28, 2022”

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January 27, 2022

01 We need to be able to pay the right bills, and that is all money is good for. When we make money an end in itself, it becomes good for nothing. Its rightful place is buying the tools we need, and supplying us with what we need to do what needs to be doneContinue reading “January 27, 2022”

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January 26, 2022

01 Maturity is doing what you don’t want in the service of what you do want. Immaturity is not doing anything you don’t want no matter what it costs someone else to make you happy. Though the degree to which you have to stay high makes it easy for everyone to doubt that you haveContinue reading “January 26, 2022”

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January 25, 2022

01 What have you always had to do well? What have you always had to get right? Not because someone told you to, not because anyone was watching. Because it mattered to you, and you had to do it like it needed to be done to please yourself? What do you do like it needsContinue reading “January 25, 2022”

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January 24, 2022

01 Helen Keller didn’t have much in the way of hope the way a lot of people think of hope, she made up for it with a willful determination to deal successfully with her situation in life, no matter what. Speaking of “what,” what’s keeping us from making the same effort in coming to termsContinue reading “January 24, 2022”

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January 23, 2022

01 My work is seeing and saying what’s so. Whether anyone sees and hears it or not. My work is seeing and saying. It has nothing to do with finding someone who can see and hear. What is seen and said elicit their own seeing and hearing, call it forth it its own time amongContinue reading “January 23, 2022”

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January 22, 2022

01 Why would we push the limits, or the envelope, without being pushed to by the nature of our circumstances? Under normal operating conditions, it is the savvy thing, the wise thing, to wait for the door to open, and then walk through. No guideline applies across all conditions. The rule across all circumstances, timesContinue reading “January 22, 2022”

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