Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

How to see what we look at,how to look at what we see…The essence of hermeneutics,the foundation of life and being,realization, sanity, stability and wonder.Lost in too much talking,explaining,instruction,words and noise.

The days keep coming.I try to minimize the impactof one damn day after anotherby staying out of the way,making it find me.I reduce my vulnerabilityby limiting my exposure.I don’t ask for it.Silence and solitude, kid.Silence and solitude.Silence and solitudemake the days work for their pleasure.It helps to be unemployed.Compassion also helps.Compassion for the damn day.AContinue reading “June 03, 2024 – B”

Our attitude can keep a bad stuationfrom getting completely out of hand.Maintaining manageability is a worthy goalfor each situation as it arises.We do that by treating things with no greater degree of seriousnessthan they deserve.And we do that by refusing to have anythingat stake in any situation that might arise.There is nothing to gain andContinue reading “June 03, 2024 – A”

I hand out business cardswith a photograph I’ve taken on one sideAnd these terms on the other side:Balance. Harmony. Original Nature. Innate Virtues (What you love to do and enjoy doing most). Intrinsic Intuition. Integrity. Sincerity. Spontaneity. Vitality. Emptiness. Stillness. Silence. Imagination. Reflection. Realization. Compassion. Generosity.Kindness. Flow. Looking/Listening.Seeing/Hearing. Knowing. Trusting. Being. Doing.With these instructions:”Reflect onContinue reading “June 02, 2024 – B”

Things play themselves out over time.Everyone with a vested interest in the outcomeinfluences the resultbut no one is in control,and however things unfoldwill leave a lot to be desired,thus, there is no outcome actually,just an eternal continuation of “circumstances begetting circumstances,”as the old Taoists observed around 500 BCE.Even the Bible understands the absence of control,withContinue reading “June 02, 2024 – A”

My intuition seems to be a spontaneous response to my life-situationthat is reliably “there”without me thinking it into action.Before my intuition,I am like the Movedin response to the Mover.And I’m wondering if perhapswe projected God onto our intuitionin the long ago and far awaywhen we didn’t have much morethan our intuition coming between us andContinue reading “June, 2024”

Finding our way to the things that need to be done,and doing them in the right way,in the right place,at the right time,is all that is asked of us.And we get plenty of practice in the art,because it is asked of usin each situation as it arises.We can begin practicing recognizingsituations as they arise.We spillContinue reading “June 01, 2024 – A”

There are more things we can do nothing about than there are things we can do something about.Guess which things we spend the most time thinking about.Make sense of that for me(Another thing nothing can be done about).Making sense of things is way out of reach.Making our peace with things we can’t make sense ofshouldContinue reading “Summer Months, 2024”

The right kind of conversation is therapeutic,salvific, restorative, grounding, centering, revitalizing, awakening…to such an extent,that it is unfathomable that we devotesuch little time and effort in the workto develop our ability to converse with one anotherfrom the heart about things that matter.We talk about news, weather, sports, gossip, and drama.When do we get to theContinue reading “May 31, 2024 – A”

I highly recommend imaginary conversationswith anyone you would like to talk to.And the more surprising what you sayand what they saythe better.Surprise gets us to the heart of the matter,which is always our perceptionof what’s what.If our perception isn’t changing,we aren’t changing.If we aren’t changing,we aren’t seeing things as they are.We are seeing things asContinue reading “May 30, 2024 – A”

There is truth,and there is assumed/presumed(And where does that line lie?)truth.And there is inquiry intothe nature of truth,which is rarely explored,which is tragic,because truth is everyone’smethod of getting/serving what they want.Trump and his supportersdeclare the truth at every opportunity.Russia and China fill the worldwith the truth around the clock.Preachers declare the truthwithout pausing to breathe.EveryoneContinue reading “May 29, 2024 – B”

We all need the right combination of the same thingsin order to be who we are,doing what is ours to do.The birthing process goes on,and on, and on…throughout our life.We are always being born again for the first time.Always coming to life,finally, at last.Waking up to who we areand what our life needs of uswithinContinue reading “May 29, 2024 – A”