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June 2020

This is Home to all pages written in June. Hovering your pointer over “June 2020” in the header, will drop down the daily posts for the month. Thanks for visiting. Stay safe and be well!

01 Absorbed and engaged are the soul’s idea of having it made. It gets to be a problem if we are only absorbed and engaged drinking beer at the beach, sitting before a slot machine in Las Vegas, smoking pot, gorging on one of sugar’s ten thousand delivery systems, or lost in any one ofContinue reading “August 9, 2020”

August 26, 2020

01 Carl Jung said, “We meet our destiny on the road we take to escape it.” And, he said, “We are who we always have been, and who we will be.” The Buddha died from eating bad pork (How enlightened was that?). He was betrayed by his disciple who served it. Jesus was betrayed byContinue reading “August 26, 2020”

August 28, 2020

01 Joseph Campbell said “Everyone gets the adventure they are ready for.” Which means no one can dial up their adventure. Dialing up anything is the core problem with human existence. “Not This! That!” Is the bane of humanity. It is Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The moral of that story isContinue reading “August 28, 2020”

August 29,2020

03 Readiness is a function of time and place, and disposition. “When the student is ready, the teacher appears,” but. When the teacher is ready, the teacher waits. Obi wan Kenobi and Yoda spent most of their lives waiting. “When the flower opens, the bees appear,” but. When the bees are ready, they send outContinue reading “August 29,2020”

August 08, 2020

The Church of What’s Happening Now

Flip Wilson’s comedy role as Reverend Leroy of The Church of What’s Happening Now is the perfect precursor for the Church as it Ought To be. For one thing, he is comedic and doesn’t take himself seriously. For another, the Church of What’s happening Now is intently focused on, and involved with, the present moment,Continue reading “The Church of What’s Happening Now”