We are capable of things we cannot imagine simply by relaxing into ourselves and opening ourselves up to each situation as it arises, allowing the situation to call us forth in the service of what is called for here, now. The old Taoist ideal of doing the right thing, in the right place, at theContinue reading “August 15, 2025”
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August 12, 2025
We all are Psychic marvels, as is every other physical thing in the Cosmos. Psyche is the source of everything. And, if we are wondering what the point of it all is, the whole point is just for the joy of it. There is nothing to gain beyond being joyful over the experience of beingContinue reading “August 12, 2025”
July 12, 2025
Walking slowly with our thoughts through the fresh greens of spring awakens hope and confidence in our ability to meet the day on the day’s terms, see what is called for and do what needs to be done about it, when, where and how it needs to be done, and let that be that. TheContinue reading “July 12, 2025”
July 04, 2025
This is the most bleak Fourth of July in my experience, and this is my 81st experience. The Constitution is out of vogue. The Bill of Rights is a laughter. The majority of the Supreme Court asks Trump how he wants them to vote. We have a king on his throne in the White House.Continue reading “July 04, 2025”
July 01, 2025
Silence steadies us and stabilizes us, grounds us and points the way. When Jesus said, “Pray always,” he was saying “Live out of the silence.” The silence is also emptiness and stillness. The three are one, like the Holy Trinity, and they connect us with all that is holy, and lead us to living livesContinue reading “July 01, 2025”
June 30,2025
Waiting to know IT when we see it,and trusting ourselves to know what to do about it when we do–and in the meantime what do we do while we wait?Waiting is IT for me,and watching,seeing, hearing, knowing, doing, being.That has been IT,and I have had a good time doing IT.Making this photograph,these photographs, was aContinue reading “June 30,2025”
April 26, 2025
We live to learn to know and trust ourselvesin order to find the way and know it when we do.We are looking for enlightenment/realization/recognition/knowing.And we live lost and adrift,awash in uncertainty, fear, lethargy, addiction, without direction or purpose”on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea.”Sex, money, drugs and alcohol are the best we can do.WeContinue reading “April 26, 2025”
March 31, 2025
We have to make sense of our life. Who are we?What are we about?What are we doing here?Where are we going?What is going on?We are gradually waking upover the full course of our life,and yet, we are constantlyputting ourselves to sleep with the hypnotic repetitionof what we have been toldof the corporate story of ourContinue reading “March 31, 2025”
March 20, 2025 – B
We cannot think up our associations.Association is not imagination.The associations we make with cigarettes, say,or pipe smoking, or alcohol, or cameras, or oceans…are ours alone to make.No one can tell us what our associations areor ought to be.Our associations speak, reveal, disclose, display the truth of who we are.What associations, if any, do you makeContinue reading “March 20, 2025 – B”
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