Having done it is it. No one living–no living thing–has done it without having toughed it out somewhere, if not all the way, along the way, and they get style points for having toughed it out with style and with grace and with Pizzazz along the way. Style points are icing on the cake. TheyContinue reading “December 27, 2027”
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June 09, 2025
Finding our niche and our schtick and our hangouts is finding ourselves. Which makes me easy to locate. I stand out like a snag on a mountain ridge. I am peculiar that way. And not particularly accessible, which is the driving idea.On the other hand, I’m eager to talk to anyone about the things IContinue reading “June 09, 2025”
January 24, 2025
It would be a reasonably close approximationto say that Taoism was being developed by Shamansin and near China by around 1500 BCE,and that Lao Tzu was creditedwith writing the Tao Te Ching about 500 BCE,and that the Buddha was stirring around in India about that same time.And that about 206-220 CE Buddhism was beingintroduced intoContinue reading “January 24, 2025”
November 17, 2024
1) All of the outstanding people of every age share the same “gifts of the spirit”with each other,namely, their original nature(different, though “the same” in all people),their innate virtues(What they did best and enjoyed doing most)and their intrinsic intuition.These are the things that set us all apart,yet make us all one.And no one,including Jesus andContinue reading “November 17, 2024”
December 04, 2023 – B
Art is religion without the theology,creeds,dogmas,doctrines…without the presumptionthat it is explaining,defining,elucidatingspiritual truthin a logical, rational, reasonable kind of way.Art says with images and metaphors”That Which Cannot Be Said,”as the old Taoists might say.Art communes with,and communicates as well as can be communicatedits encounter with the Numen,the Numinous,the Ineffable…Art is “transparent to transcendence,”and expresses,exhibits,displays,reveals,Transcendent Realityin everyContinue reading “December 04, 2023 – B”
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