We refuse to bear consciously the pain of our contradictions/paradoxes/polarities and deny them, run from them, hide from them, when the simple solution is to refuse to take them seriously and laugh at them, play with them, enjoy them, live lovingly with them all the way. Schizophrenia is not much different than poetry, or otherContinue reading “August 19-B, 2022”
Category Archives: August, 2022
August 19-A, 2022
We can’t hurry anything up, or slow anything down. It is a though we are all in this river that flows at its own rate no matter what we do, and we forget that, and think we can hurry things up and slow things down, and avoid things altogether. Nope. Can’t do it. We areContinue reading “August 19-A, 2022”
August 18-C, 2022
There is what we want, and there is what we ought to want. Guess what kind of chance the-ought-to-want has with us? Slim or fat? The-ought-to-want tags along behind us everywhere we go, hoping to be heard, seen, attended– never giving up, never quitting. Want gets all of the attention, wields all the power, enjoysContinue reading “August 18-C, 2022”
August 17-B, 2022
We are throwing away Democracy because it interferes with our ability to make money any way we can, and we desperately need all the money we can get any way we can get it. Why? Because we say so. That’s why. No one needs more money than they can spend, even buying luxury yachts andContinue reading “August 17-B, 2022”
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”
August 16-A, 2022
It is hard to beat the right kind of company for maintaining our balance and harmony, keeping our feet under us, oriented in the right direction, with fealty, devotion and loyalty to the right things, and a healthy sense of humor to lead us along the way. And the right kind of company is idealContinue reading “August 16-A, 2022”
August 15-C, 2022
Joseph Campbell said that when Alan Watts asked him, “Joe, what form does your yoga take?” Campbell replied, “I underline passages.” Our yoga connects us with the truth at the heart of our existence, upholding us, calling us more fully into our life– the life that is truly ours to live, though we might haveContinue reading “August 15-C, 2022”
August 15-B, 2022
Balance and harmony position us to respond appropriately to each situation as it arises. Finding the center, being grounded firmly to the Anchor Stone, seeing what’s what and what needs to be done in response, serve the cause of balance and harmony, and make for peace. We have to live out of our own heart,Continue reading “August 15-B, 2022”
August 14-B, 2022
The way I imagine it is to say that our DNA is equivalent to a seed’s epicotyl. Whether or not that is accurate, both terms “DNA” and “epicotyl” are words denoting mysteries no one comprehends. How does the stuff that comes encoded in our DNA, in a plant’s epicotyl, get there? I have not conductedContinue reading “August 14-B, 2022”
August 14-A, 2022
Our life is always saying, “Here. See what you can do with this.” And it is our place to see what we can do with it. Our creativity and playfulness come into play, along with our intuition and instinct, our original nature and innate virtues, every time we get the “See what you can doContinue reading “August 14-A, 2022”
August 10-B, 2022
My wife and I are treading boiling water between Scylla and Charybdis amid the heaving waves and clashing rocks of the wine-dark sea, awash as we are in the nightmare of selling/buying houses and moving 18 minutes closer to our children because age is limiting our ability to tend and care for two floors, threeContinue reading “August 10-B, 2022”
August 10-A, 2022
Emptiness, stillness, silence, integrity, sincerity, simplicity, original nature, innate virtues, no judgment, no expectation, no agenda, no plan, no opinion, just seeing, just hearing, just knowing what we know, just sensing what needs to be done, and doing it when it needs to be done, where it needs to be done, how it needs toContinue reading “August 10-A, 2022”
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