October 21, 2024 – A

Everybody wants to be happy.Donald Trump plays that to the hilt.He tells them the Democratswill make them unhappyin all the ways he tells themthe Democrats are for everythingReal People are against:Immigrants,Sex-changing,Homosexuals,High grocery pricesand raising taxes.He doesn’t ask them how happy they wereduring his Presidency.He tells them how unhappy they will beunder Kamala Harris.I say, “WhatContinue reading “October 21, 2024 – A”

October 20, 2024 – A

Dementia has several phases.I wonder what form mine will take,looking out the window,watching the days come and go.I am curious about a lot of things,most things, actually.I’ve always been that way,and enjoy it the most.I wonder what I will wonder about next,waiting for some form of dementiato carry me off(I wonder where I will beContinue reading “October 20, 2024 – A”

October 18, 2024 – A

We live in the tensionbetween “Yes” and “No”–with the contingency of having to pay the priceof riding the ride,of doing what we want,without doing what we don’t wantin order to do it.The benefits we enjoycome with a cost to enjoying them.And we want the joywithout the cost.And coming to terms with the costsof life’s benefitsisContinue reading “October 18, 2024 – A”

October 17, 2024 – A

I think of the people just getting byin Long Lake, New York,and Tupper Lake,and Rangeley Lake, Maineand throughout the United States,and the entire planet,and the cosmos,and wonder why they do it.What is their motivation?Their motivating force?Why do they get up and face the day?Let’s see what good we can do today!For the joy of doingContinue reading “October 17, 2024 – A”

October 16, 2024 – A

Fold it all in.Incubate it.Reflect on it.Allow it to work its magic within,transforming us into thosewho care without caring,and do without doing,and accomplish without striving,living in the serviceof what is called forwithout ambition,intention,expectation or opinion.Just seeing,hearing,knowing,understanding,respondingto what is neededin each situation as it arisesout of our original nature,innate virtues(What we do best and enjoy doingContinue reading “October 16, 2024 – A”

October 14, 2024 – A

We are all we have–we are all we need!But.It takes realization,awareness-attentionto make it so.There is no father-god out there.The God we seek is in here:In our body,mind,intuition,virtues (The things we do bestand enjoy doing most),original nature.We laugh “and say “No way!”YES WAY!!!All it takes is waking upto know that it is so.We all know thatContinue reading “October 14, 2024 – A”

October 13, 2024 – A

Bringing to life the holy within usand living as the divine in human formputs us in the league with the Christand requires the same of usthat was demanded of him,namely that we live without concern forprofit or gain,advantage and advancement,exploitation and prosperity…and simply do what is called forin each situation as it ariseswith the giftsContinue reading “October 13, 2024 – A”

October 12, 2024 – A

Joseph Campbell said (In “Pathways to Bliss”)that myths and symbols (If they are alive for us)guide us in aligning ourselves with our lifeand with our own inner nature (And I would add here, with our innate virtues [The things we do bestand enjoy doing most], and with our intrinsic intuition, and, in so doing, serveContinue reading “October 12, 2024 – A”

October 11, 2024 – A

We have to drop into emptiness (stillness/silence)on a regular basisto just breatheand wait for “the mud to settle and the water to clear,”and to see what meets us there.To see what arises thereto catch our eye,get our attention,and send us back into the field of actionwith a sense of what is called forto live inContinue reading “October 11, 2024 – A”

October 10, 2024 – A

This text is found in Deuteronomy: It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to getContinue reading “October 10, 2024 – A”