Category Archives: 06/25/2020

I wrote the following 23 years ago: “What do we have to do whether we want to or not? What would we do whether we got paid for it or not? What would we do whether it were easy or not? What would we do even though there is, apparently, nothing in it for us?Continue reading “June 25, 2026”

We have to make our peace with our life throughout our life. Making our peace with having to constantly be making our peace is, itself, an important piece of our being able to make our peace as necessary without warning all the way from start to finish. It is upheaval and disruption on the heavingContinue reading “June 24, 2026”

The river does not have a way. The river finds a way. Be the river.

My father reacted to me and I reacted to my father and we both could have done a lot better. And we both need to acknowledge that about ourselves to each other and simply allow that truth to be a part of our individual makeup, and let it go. And this is so with wayContinue reading “June 23, 2026”

Sitting quietly and assessing the quality of the things that occur to us in the silence will develop our curiosity about the nature of the drift of our thoughts over time, raising the question, “Why do we think naturally, spontaneously, of the things we think about and not something else instead?” And, “How might thatContinue reading “June 22, 2026 -B”

I am not going to care about things that are not worth caring about in the time left for living. I will leave all of those things for someone else to care about. And I recommend this as a life posture for everyone. Care about the things that are worth caring about and let theContinue reading “June 22, 2026”

As far as I can tell MAGA is merely another term for White Supremacist. I have been white all my life and I have never felt the need to be supreme. What would that get me? What is it with white people who need to be supreme? Who need to be supreme to such anContinue reading “June 21, 2026 – C”

There is a solace in the pathos of aging and cognitive decline. In the pathos of life. Solace and a sense of the sublime side of being alive. What a wonder it all is. To experience the IS-NESS of living. The sadness, and madness, and horror, and joy, and delight–the IS-NESS and the ALL-NESS ofContinue reading “June 21, 2026”

How do things need to be here, now? How do we know? Take inventory? Consult the Silence? Check our email? Wait to see? I like easing into the day. Letting the day arrive slowly, at its own pace. Little by little. Giving it room to be what it needs to be. Without plans and agendas,Continue reading “June 20, 2026”

I am dealing with cognitive decline which shows itself in forgetting things I am supposed to know, like the name of one of our daughters, which I can remember by thinking of the name of another of our daughters, but forgetting how to get home from the auto dealership after getting an oil change isContinue reading “June 19, 2026 – B”

I am taken by the solitude that abounds in the world. Every scene conceals and reveals elements of solitude. And where do the lines lie between solitude and aloneness, between aloneness and loneliness? And the cure for loneliness is solitude according to Marianne Moore. What we have here is a circle of perception/perspective, and howContinue reading “June 19, 2026”