A woman on a black Horse has been my metaphor for my intuition guiding, directing, me through my life, from where I am here, now to what is called for and what is calling me to do in each situation as it arises. I know it when I see it, sense it, the way IContinue reading “October, 2025”
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September 30, 2025
Psyche and the Tao commune with each other,share a common language, and an environment that includes usin the work to be what is needed and do what is called forin each situation as it arises.We only need to get on board with themand bring our gifts–the things we do bestand enjoy doing most–to life inContinue reading “September 30, 2025”
September 29, 2025
I hired Tom Phillips, the Zen Master of Navajo Photography Guides in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. My wife and I were crowded into the only seat of Tom’s pickup driving through the desert on the way to the first stop on Tom’s list of “Shooting Locations,” when we met a Navajo woman on aContinue reading “September 29, 2025”
September 28, 2025
Marianne Moore said, “The cure for loneliness is solitude.” Perspective shifts transform everything. Everyone thinks the way they see things is the way things are. Which makes magicians of us all. Just by changing the way we see things changes the way things are. The way we think becomes the magic wand disappearing moods andContinue reading “September 28, 2025”
September 27, 2025
It can get to be too much like that (snaps fingers), but.”It” is only a matter of perspective.All it takes is turning the light around.The trick to turning the light around is found in working withcaring and not-caring, wanting and not-wanting.We can care too much about the wrong things.We can want too much of theContinue reading “September 27, 2025”
September 26, 2025
There are “will,” “want,” and “desire,” in terms of having/getting our way on our way through our life.And there is living aligned with the drift and flow of life in cooperating with the situation and circumstances of the here, now using our natural interests, skills and abilities to do what is called for without anyContinue reading “September 26, 2025”
September 25, 2025
The old Taoists were right about it all. “Circumstances begetting circumstances,”was their explanation for everything being what it is.Circumstances call for what needs to happen next.And we are called, by our circumstances,to size things up and determine what is called for here, now, and do the right thing, at the right time,in the right way,andContinue reading “September 25, 2025”
September 24, 2025
I once drove long distances for sunrises and sunsets,moonrises and moonsets. Not so much anymore. I trust them to perform on their own. They seem to have it down, and take care of business quite handily without my assistance.It is a comfort to know that things can manage complex sequences and show up on time,Continue reading “September 24, 2025”
September 23, 2025
It isn’t being dead that bothers me.It is the dying I would like to avoid.More specifically, it is the lingering incapacity,the dwindling, the not-dead-yet-but-maybe-a-little-deader-today-than-yesterday-it’s-hard-to-tell that I find to be tedious and unnecessary.I would like to be surprised, and yet, I like to think that I’m ready to die at any time, prepared, and looking forwardContinue reading “September 23, 2025”
September 22, 2025
Ms. Unglesby was my fifth-grade teacher at Georgia Tucker Elementary in Monroe, Louisiana, who told my mother in one of those Parent/Teacher conferences, “Jimmy looks out the window a lot.”Jimmy still does. He carries the window with him wherever he goes. And takes photographs of what he sees to share with those who couldn’t beContinue reading “September 22, 2025”
September 21, 2025
Experience is required to know/understand/comprehend. It cannot be said, told, explained, defined… Psyche is leading us to knowing throughout our life. We are not old enough to get it until we are old. And then it takes talking to/with people who are consciously seeking to grasp Psyche’s attempts at communion. Waking up. Enlightenment–is Psyche breakingContinue reading “September 21, 2025”
September 21, 2025
Participating in the rhythm and flow of life here, now–seeing, hearing, knowing, doing (One thing, not four) what is called for in response to what is happening in each situation as it arises is all there is. “Peaceful abiding, here, now” is seeing/doing this very thing, situation after situation, all our life long. In syncContinue reading “September 21, 2025”
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