Tag Archives: writing

April 25, 2026

I hope you won’t think I wasted my time, and I hope you won’t think you wasted your money (It only will cost you $2.50. That’s less that a cup of coffee at Starbucks). I enjoyed this re-write more than any of them, and there have been many, and I expect that I will allowContinue reading “April 25, 2026”

April 20, 2026 – B

We tend to take our perspective seriously. “Hell, Jim,” he said, standing in his cotton field in Panola County, Mississippi, talking with me, his pastor at the time, about racism, “This ain’t how I SEE things! This is how things ARE!” His perspective wasn’t just his perspective–it was the TRUTH!!! “I know when it’s timeContinue reading “April 20, 2026 – B”

March 30, 2026

The force that centers us, grounds us, balances us, harmonizes us, directs us, guides us, has been called the Tao at work in our life for thousands of years. We can think of the Tao as the flow of life and being. As that which moves all life and every thing. As “circumstances begetting circumstances,”Continue reading “March 30, 2026”

March 24, 2026

Psyche is known best via intuition and dreams (Both nighttime dreams and day dreams). Psyche makes herself known to us in these ways, and becomes known herself. What has always been referred to as “the presence of God” is exactly the same thing as “the presence of Psyche.” I prefer “Psyche” to “God” because thereContinue reading “March 24, 2026”

March 04, 2025

Enthusiasm and vitality are not constant, regular, daily experiences. Boredom, ennui and monotony are much more reliable and frequent occurrences. And that’s a problem because we are addicted to the rush of wonder and delight, to the point of artificial applications of highs from a bottle or a pill. We will do anything to feelContinue reading “March 04, 2025”

February 27, 2026

I am a strong believer in trance states. Self-induced trance-states. Looking out the window. Drifting off into wool-gathering or taking a walk-a-bout to nowhere in particular. Not going anywhere and not being here, now at the same time. Aware only of what occurs to me/you, to what appears out of the mists, to catch ourContinue reading “February 27, 2026”

January 30, 2026

The phrase, “after a certain age,” is one that is used frequently in doctors’ offices after a certain age. It means “these things can be expected,” “this symptom is not unusual,” “don’t let it bother you”… Those Who Know Best don’t talk to you that way in your 40’s and 50’s, but by your mid-seventies,Continue reading “January 30, 2026”

January 24, 2026

There is what we do to live, and there is what we live to do. Occasionally these may be the same thing. There are artists who support themselves with their art, and musicians who make a living with their music. Most of us do what we love by paying the bills doing what we don’tContinue reading “January 24, 2026”

January 18, 2026

The Way of the Tao is the way of water seeking its own level, which has nothing to do with what water wants. Water doesn’t want anything. Water just does what its circumstances call for. This is the First Lesson of the Tao: What does wanting know? What is being asked of us? Here, now?Continue reading “January 18, 2026”

January 02, 2026

Redundancy is my shtick. Repetition keeps me on track. I know who I am by reminding myself of where my boundaries lie and what’s still what, slowly adding to the collection of life-long revelations over time. I cannot think of the last new thing, and have no idea of what that next new thing mightContinue reading “January 02, 2026”

December 31, 2025

Finding our way starts with where we are here, now, and with what we perceive our options to be. What are our assets? Our liabilities? Our choices? We might drop into the emptiness/stillness/silence with these questions and wait to see what occurs to us out of the silence. I am retired with no pressing responsibilitiesContinue reading “December 31, 2025”