We live to find out what we can do and what we have no business doing. We live to know what our limits are. We can’t just be afraid of what they might be. And we can’t be thinking we can do anything we want. We are limited by our interests, capabilities/abilities… I thought IContinue reading “August 31-B, 2022”
Category Archives: August, 2022
August 30-B, 2022
Joseph Campbell talked about the difference between the Ego and the Tao in terms of finding our way through our life. He said the Ego is the critical function, and the Tao is the intuitive function. The Ego assesses a situation in terms of pros and cons, likes and don’t likes, and figuring the odds,Continue reading “August 30-B, 2022”
August 30-A, 2022
We have to find our peace and live from there. It begins with making our peace with our life just as it is. With coming to terms with things just as they are. Most people I know never do this. They live hopelessly, or with resentment and bitterness, or depression, or with a combination ofContinue reading “August 30-A, 2022”
August 27-B, 2022
All of my women heroes are actual, all of my men heroes are fictional. I don’t know what to make of that. Helen Keller and Ann Sullivan head the list. Princes Diana, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dolly Parton… the list is really long Tevya, Chauncey Gardner, Atticus Finch. That’s about it. There are men I admire, JosephContinue reading “August 27-B, 2022”
August 26-B, 2022
We spend a lifetime working things out one situation at a time. Thinking we know what we are doing. Being led along by fear and desire, greed and jealousy– the real Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse– through predictable outcomes to unsatisfactory ends wondering what could have made all the difference. Waking up would not haveContinue reading “August 26-B, 2022”
August 26-A, 2022
What is your flow, your rhythm, your style, your shtick? Your brand, your type, your archetype, your home? Where do you belong? Where do you fit? Where is the oasis for your soul’s recovery? Our patterns are to be recognized, acknowledged, honored, served. And allowed to guide us along the way with no destination inContinue reading “August 26-A, 2022”
August 24-C, 2022
My sister, Susan, was one slight perspective shift away from being alive today. She took her own life on 12/20/2021 at age 62 by refusing to eat or drink as per her living will– “No liquids, no tube feeding, nothing to prolong my life. Let’s get this show on the road!”– and under the watchfulContinue reading “August 24-C, 2022”
August 22-B, 2022
Whenever I think I need more noise and complexity in my life, I read some Buddhist texts on monastic methods and procedures for doing Buddhism right. Talk about nit-picking, legalistic, no slacking off allowed rules to live by! You dare not even think about emptying yourself of the lengthy list of do’s and don’t’s regardingContinue reading “August 22-B, 2022”
August 21-B, 2022
There is a way of assessing a person’s degree of health referred to as “ease of functioning” by two Canadian researchers working on the questions, “What is health?” and “What is the difference between good health and bad health?” “Ease of functioning” is a helpful way of thinking about what we are doing and howContinue reading “August 21-B, 2022”
August 21-A, 2022
We spend much of our life waiting. The Green Heron is waiting for an afternoon snack to swim, or fly, by. I was waiting for a Green Heron to alight on the log and pose for a photo. The secret of bird photography is to walk with a camera into the vicinity of birds andContinue reading “August 21-A, 2022”
August 19-E, 2022
People are always misreading their attractions, thinking love and sex, when the first read should always be self-reflection/examination/exploration/inspection… Whenever we find ourselves knocking ourselves off track, we have to dig then and there into what is going on. Everything is a doorway/portkey/invitation to self-transparency/awareness, with the potential to strengthen, or weaken, our affiliation with theContinue reading “August 19-E, 2022”
August 19-C, 2022
We all need a sounding board. A sounding board is all we need. We have to hear what we have to say. All of our “institutions” are designed to keep us from hearing what we have to say. They all tell us what we need to hear. Churches head the list. Schools. Hospitals. Government… EverythingContinue reading “August 19-C, 2022”
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