Category Archives: 06/25/2020

After Ed’s Death By Jim Dollar Ah, the Ache! It is so important to not outlive the ache! I would raise a toast to Ed, if I had a Mimosa in hand: “Here’s to the Ache! And to what it takes to embrace the Ache– and to keep it alive within!” There are people scatteredContinue reading “September 01-C, 2022”

The New Dark Ages are at the gates. Jesus was helpless against those who would not see. Helplessness remains remains the case with willful blindness and self-righteous stupidity. There is nothing denial cannot deny. Idiocy has to play itself out, sometimes, over generations. It is not going to disappear just because it would be convenientContinue reading “August 31-A 2022”

Our life is where we bring ourselves forth, exhibiting, displaying, expressing, reflecting, incarnating, unveiling, disclosing who we are for all to see acknowledge, behold and duplicate by living their own life in ways that are unique to them. We are all the Christ in our own way, “the anointed one” come to exhibit and makeContinue reading “August 30-C, 2022”

Take refuge in your original nature and in your innate virtues. These are our superpowers, and our ever-present help in time of trouble. We sink into who we are and do what is ours to do, becoming who we are uniquely suited to be in each situation as it arises, like Clark Kent becoming Superman.Continue reading “August 29-B, 2022”

Doing things that matter to us, that are important to us, and doing them well, is good training/practice for doing things that matter to others, that are important to the way the world works, and doing them well makes all the difference. Find the things that matter to you and do them. Do the thingsContinue reading “August 29-A, 2022”

“Om Mani Padme Hum” Is a Buddhist chant, containing all of the sutras and the Dharma in six syllables– and which can be further reduced to a single “Om,” or “Aum.” Joseph Campbell said, “AUM” is a symbolic sound that puts you in touch with that resounding being that is the universe. If you heardContinue reading “August 28-B, 2022”

These are not peaceful times. How do you find your peace when there is no peace? Just breathing helps me. “Just breathing” means just breathing. No thinking. No worrying. No anxiety. No drama. No what-if’s. No… Just breathing. Breathe in. Breathe out. Count to five in sync with your heart beat. Breathe in. Breathe out.Continue reading “August 28-A, 2022”

We make our way through the world, generally following “the course of least resistance,” like water on its journey to the sea. In similar situations, we do similar things– things that have worked before, and we assume will work again– and over time we create patterns, or ruts, and fall into habits of mindlessly repeatingContinue reading “August 27-A, 2022”

As far as I can see, everyone has taken up the alcoholic’s quest for “smooth and easy,” (Ogi Overman’s phrase), and alcohol isn’t the only path they take in trying to find it. They take every path, and call it “bliss,” or “having it made,” or “escape from suffering…” But it all amounts to “smoothContinue reading “August 25-B, 2022”

Iris DeMent’s “Let the Mystery Be,” should be required singing throughout the land. It’s all Mystery. The Mind is a mystery. Everything seems to participate in Mind. Viruses and flocks of birds and schools of fish… The people who vote for Trump are of one mind, and the people who vote against him are ofContinue reading “August 25-A, 2022”

All transitions have something in common with the butterfly’s exit from the chrysalis, which, you will remember, but a step in the process of its transition from caterpillar to butterfly. And is thoroughly amazing– and not much different from our transitions through all of the stages of our own development all along the way. AndContinue reading “August 24-B, 2022”