01, Our hope is in our own ability to stand up and face the day, and that means eventually standing up and facing our inability to face the day on our own. My agility, stability, flexibility and mobility are becoming distant memories, and I’m squaring up to life on a different basis than the oneContinue reading “February 21, 2022”
Category Archives: February 2021
February 28, 2021
02 Finding what resonates with us and spending time with it opens the way to balance and harmony. Resonance is the bond uniting us with the mystery at the heart of life and being. We know it when it happens, but we cannot predict when it is going to happen, or make it happen byContinue reading “February 28, 2021”
February 27, 2021
03 Once we adjust and adapt to our life, everything is perfect. Until then, we are at war with our life, hell-bent on pounding it into a shape that is pleasing to us, pushing, forcing, striving, commanding, compelling, contending with forces quite beyond us, determined to have our way with our life or die trying.Continue reading “February 27, 2021”
February 26, 2021
05 What do you take your time with? Spend time with? What do you do well? What do you care about? What do you believe in– not as a statement of faith, but as a declaration of what is important to you, of what matters to you? These are centering questions. They point you to–Continue reading “February 26, 2021”
February 25, 2021
04 In every situation, there is a tipping point where the responses of the people in the situation can influence the outcome of the situation for better or for worse. Our response in the present moment has an influential impact upon future moments, both immediate and distant. We wield the power for good or forContinue reading “February 25, 2021”
February 24, 2021
02 Our motives stem from our desires and fears. From what we want and don’t want. Look around. We could do better with different reasons for doing what we do, and do not. Reasons that have nothing to do with our advantage, gain, advancement, benefit, pleasure or profit. There are two approaches to take inContinue reading “February 24, 2021”
February 23, 2021
02 We take everything on faith. Or close enough. “Objective reality” is pretty much fabricated, assumed, projected, inferred, made up, and pretended to be what we say it is. How do we know that what we say is so, is so? Who says so? And, who says they know what they are talking about? And,Continue reading “February 23, 2021”
February 21, 2021
04 We like to think George Bailey and Jefferson Smith (The Mr. Smith who goes to Washington) are Everyman, and that Donald Trump and his people are not. The assumption is not valid. The people who profit handsomely at someone else’s expense are legion. Beyond counting. And they never stop with the conniving, contriving, plotting,Continue reading “February 21, 2021”
February 20, 2021
02 It comes down to doing this thing well. Whatever it is. Do the present moment well. To do that, we have to be all there, collected, attentive, focused, aware of the moment and what is being called for there. We cannot do the moment well in an absent-minded kind of way. In each moment,Continue reading “February 20, 2021”
February 19, 2021
03 We must talk to the world, and the world must talk to us. Though “commune” is more to the point than “talk,” for with “commune,” the emphasis is on listening and not on what is to be said. How do we position ourselves– intentionally/deliberately– to commune with the world? Sit quietly. Tune in. WaitContinue reading “February 19, 2021”
February 18, 2021
02 My beef with Buddhism is its not-caring solution to suffering. The Buddha’s big idea was to not-care. To call suffering an illusion, and have nothing to do with it. I much prefer Jesus’ solution to suffering, which is to suffer! To bear the pain of caring and to care even if it kills you.Continue reading “February 18, 2021”
February 17, 2021
02 Wes Nesker said, “Nature, like play, has no purpose or consequence other than itself.” What do we do that is like that? Eating and sex might be it for most of us. Watching birds. And clouds. And sunrises and sets. How long is your list? How often do you do something on it? WorkContinue reading “February 17, 2021”
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