Category Archives: 06/25/2020

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

Peace, stillness, emptiness, silence, quiet, just being there, here, now. Go there often. Remain there long. Better advice would be hard to find.

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.

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”

The newest edition of A Handbook For The Spiritual Journey is up and available ($2.00) at the Kindle store on Amazon. It revolutionizes thinking about all things God, though the cover will be a bit different due to complications beyond my control.