Category Archives: 06/25/2020

01 In my studied opinion, most of the people who are alive and have ever lived do/did so on the strength of diversion, distraction and denial. Which means they lived in the service of sex, drugs, alcohol and money to take their mind off their troubles and “pass a good time” while they waited toContinue reading “May 06, 2022”

The End of the 22-acre Woods The beginning of 480 single family dwellings plus a condo or two and all that comes with it, 40 feet to the north of where I live. Woopie. This machine is a tree-eater. It pushes trees over and grinds them up. It can eat the forest in a coupleContinue reading “May 03 B, 2022”

Curiosity is a super power. Asking all the questions that beg to be asked, saying all the things that cry out to be said, getting to the bottom of things that have no bottom, seeking, searching, knocking, inquiring, following hunches, looking for clues, sniffing out possibilities, seeing answers as the source of better questions, leadsContinue reading “May, 2022”

01 It is perspective all the way down, and Mystery at the bottom. Or, as Lao Tzu liked to say, “Darkness within darkness, the gateway to mystery.” We will never make sense of it. All the explanations and theories get in the way of enjoying the experience of Mystery. Once we get that it isContinue reading “April 29, 2022”

01 Enlightenment is a flip in perspective. It is changing our mind about what is important. That is the only difference between seeing what’s what and not seeing what’s what. If we are going to see what we look at, we have to be able to change our mind about what that is. It isContinue reading “April 24, 2022”

01 Judas took the revelation of Jesus of Nazareth– the stone that the builders reject which was in fact the chief cornerstone, and we toss it into the pile of rubble to be used for ballast for ships with not enough cargo for stable passage back home– Judas took the Word of God Made FleshContinue reading “April 23, 2022”

01 Joseph Campbell taught at Sara Lawrence College for 38 years. Each year, he conducted what amounted to exit interviews with each graduating student who had taken his classes. There were a large number of Jewish women at Sara Lawrence, but one stood apart from the others when she said, “Mr. Campbell, if I weren’tContinue reading “April 22, 2022”

This is the parent page for posts during the second quarter of 2022. Hope you are glad to be here! Seeing happens in its own time, in its own way, if we stay out of the way and allow things to unfold according to their own accord– just waiting, just watching, for the mud toContinue reading “2022-B”

01 Would it be easier for Russia to admit defeat, or to launch a nuclear strike against Ukraine? The is the ultimate damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-don’t situation. “Do you want to die this way? Or do you want to die that way?” With a psychopath at the controls, he won’t ask the question. He will simply push theContinue reading “April 14, 2022”

01 It comes down to perspective. It is all about perspective. It is perspective all the way down. How we look at what we see determines everything that follows. We cannot change what we are doing until we change how we see– how we look at, how we think about– what we see when weContinue reading “April 08, 2022”

01 We do not out-live traumatic experiences. Flashbacks come without warning, and a fifty-year-old experience, or collection of experiences, is right here, right now. And so, the process of waiting it out. Sometimes the practice of emptying myself of all reactions to the events eases things after a while. And sometimes something startling, like theContinue reading “March 28, 2022”

01 I don’t know what keeps you going, as for me, I can’t wait to see what happens and what I do about it. The Mystery is abundant. It unfolds in all directions every day. Something drops out of the sky several times a day. I wonder what will be next! I’m thinking new thoughts,Continue reading “March 26, 2022”