Category Archives: 06/25/2020

There has to be an accounting, a reckoning, an awakening, a realization, a full knowing of who we are and what we have done. This is basic 12-Step stuff. Squaring up to our lapses, failures, excesses and deficits– and letting it be because it is, learning from it, and living to redeem it, making amendsContinue reading “November 03, 2023 – A”

Now is now everywhere. If everyone wherever they are would only do what needs to be done now, where and how it needs to be done, and follow that into the next now flowing from this one, the transformation would be instantaneous. And since there is nothing but now in which to experience being alive,Continue reading “November 02, 2023 – A”

The people in Stonington, Maine eke out a living as best they can, like 99% of the world’s population from the beginning– and, if they are lucky, foster an inner life that enables them to live with joy, resolve and resiliency amid the ebbs and flows of their outer life. How many world-wide through allContinue reading “November 01, 2023 – A”

Hate, fear and greed are the primary motivators. Peace, love and compassion have no chance against them. “The Woke masses are going to take your guns! And the people of color are going to eat your babies!” Repeat that over and over from the pulpits and the talk shows and you have recreated Hitler GermanyContinue reading “November, 2023”

We know more than we know we know. Let’s spend the rest of our life discovering what that is! Curiosity leads the way! Being curious about our nighttime dreams. About the things that spontaneously occur to us, or call us to action, out of nowhere, for no apparent reason. About questions that arise unbidden, booksContinue reading “October 31, 2023 – A”

We are always looking, pleading, for divine assistance, when all the help we need is “right there,” right here, right now. We are born with what we need to find what we need to do what needs to be done here/now. And, we will not be abandoned and left bereft. So, what’s with all theContinue reading “October 30, 2023 – A”

Believe whatever it takes in order to do the right thing at the right time in the right place in the right way in each situation as it arises all your life long no matter what it means for you personally. That’s what Jesus did, and that’s what Jesus calls us to do. This nonsenseContinue reading “October 29, 2023 – A”

When the structures and systems supporting society fail for lack of attention, it is a mark against us all, declaring that someone did not vote for the right people. When the right people do not hold positions of responsibility, the rest of the people suffer. Was it PT Barnum who said, “No one ever gotContinue reading “October 28, 2023 – A”

It’s all a matter of chance. What we do with it is what matters. What we do with the moment, with the day, with our life… With what pilots our boat on it path through the sea. Having our way and getting what we want is one way to do it. Seems to be theContinue reading “October 27, 2023 – A”

Where do you spend your money? Where do you spend your time? There you are. I wander among the exhibitions of the natural world, taking refuge in what it has to offer as a buffer against the goings-on in the world of normal, apparent, reality. There is much there I don’t like and can doContinue reading “October 26, 2023 – A”

Perspective is the key. It’s all a matter of enlarging our perspective, flipping our perspective, changing our perspective about what’s important, and getting up and doing what needs to be done. People who see the same things in the same way over time may as well be dead for all the good they are doingContinue reading “October 25, 2023 – A”

Comes a war, comes a hurricane, comes an earthquake, comes a baby… goes the Tao amid the dust and travail. The Tao comes and goes. That is the Way of Tao, of the Way. We find our way back to the Way through the right kind of emptiness, stillness, silence, and waiting for the mudContinue reading “October 24, 2023 – B”