Blue Ridges. Get it? Anyway we look at it, Jesus had all of the advantages, right? “God’s only son, Jesus Christ, our lord,” as the old confession of faith puts it. “God’s only son” should count for something, no? Evidently not. “Crucified, dead and buried.” Just like everyone else. Well, except for the “crucified” part,Continue reading “June 14, 2026 – D”
Category Archives: 06/25/2020
June 14, 2026 – C
I wonder if there is a Wild Thing anywhere that likes its chances. That feels good about its prospects. That ever thinks it has a cushion. Which is interesting because I am confident that every Wild Thing everywhere is 100% at one with Tao, Psyche and Intuition. Which is all Wild Things have going forContinue reading “June 14, 2026 – C”
June 14, 2026 – B
I grew up, as did we all, among people making the best of it, of their life and their living conditions, they all could have used more help than they got–and could have been more helpful than they were. And yet, here we are, even so, even yet, even here, now. Things were right-enough forContinue reading “June 14, 2026 – B”
June 14, 2026
It helps if we are easier to please. Lower expectations make a difference. Stepping into the day with a camera and no pictures in mind, ready to find the best compositions available given the light and weather conditions–with no stipulations regarding either lighten’s the days load and gives us a better chance of being happyContinue reading “June 14, 2026”
June 13, 2026 – B
Spending enough time in the right kind of silence is essential for knowing what we know. When we live noisy, complex, complicated lives, we are too busy to listen to our body. Our body knows. When we know what our body knows, we know what’s what and what is called for here, now. And weContinue reading “June 13, 2026 – B”
June 13, 2026
Listening to ourselves is the secret to being lucky and having it made. We are always talking to ourselves, mainly complaining, whining, wanting, wanting, wanting. We would do well to start listening. Making inquiries. Being interested in what we have to say. Why would we die never having heard what we are dying to talkContinue reading “June 13, 2026”
June 12, 2026
I would like to conduct exit interviews with people worldwide to see if they think life is worth the effort. And I would like to conduct those interviews with populations who lived in different centuries throughout time. I would like to spend eternity talking to people. I would be particularly interested to see how humorContinue reading “June 12, 2026”
June 11, 2026 – C
I am amazed at my flip from going anywhere to take a photograph to being perfectly content to sit looking out the window with a computer filled with images I have taken in my lap and being completely disinterested in going anywhere for any reason. It is as though I have placed myself in solitaryContinue reading “June 11, 2026 – C”
June 11, 2026 – B
Peace, stillness, emptiness, silence, quiet, just being there, here, now. Go there often. Remain there long. Better advice would be hard to find.
An Addition to my eBook, “A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey”
The Parable of the Prodigal Son as told by Jesus in the New Testament and recorded in Luke 15:11-32 is the story of the younger son of a farmer who goes to his father and asks for his inheritance, which his father grants. The son leaves his home and journeys to a far country whereContinue reading “An Addition to my eBook, “A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey””
June 11, 2026
We live in the midst of wonder and share time with the natural world just for the joy of it. Because we can. And look forward to the next time as time well spent.
June 10, 2026
My friend, John Payne, in talking about his cognitive decline, said, “I have reached the point in my life where intention becomes memory.” And facts become anybody’s guess. Maybe yes, maybe no, and maybe one day but not yet. And the only thing holding it all together is a sense of humor that shrugs itContinue reading “June 10, 2026”