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Count Your (Minor) Miracles
This is a silly watercolor I did a few years ago. I call it ‘Dreams and Dogs.’ It’s not show worthy but makes me laugh so I keep it around. Today I heard the phrase, “minor miracle.” It struck me as...
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There Is Wisdom In Dancing
TODAY’S FEATURED THOUGHT FOR HUMANS To restate an old notion: knowledge is not wisdom. And, often times, our reliance on knowledge blinds us to wisdom (for instance, passing a test has little or...
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Give Over The Melody Line [on KS Friday]
Spiritual teachers across traditions suggest that the reason we suffer is that we focus on what we think should be/supposed to be instead of on what is. The dedication to being someplace other than...
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Empty The Dishwasher Slowly [on Merely A Thought Monday]
In the dark ages, when I did my driver’s ed course, I remember reading an experiment in which two cars drove the same long distance route; the first car followed all of the speed limits. The second...
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Eat The Cold [on Merely A Thought Monday]
“Eat the cold!” the Buddhist monk said to the shivering novice. “Eat the cold.” It is” monk-speak for embracing rather than resisting the circumstances of your life. Non-resistance. Detachment. Hold...
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Give Light [on Two Artists Tuesday]
“What is to give light must endure burning.” ~ Viktor Frankel We walked downtown a few days after the fires. We decided it was time to go see for ourselves what had happened in our town only a few...
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Make It Flexible Again [on Two Artists Tuesday]
This is a tale of two quotes. They collided in my brain while I pondered this wacky year, diverging realities, repeated historical patterns, and why I have yet to rake the leaves. You might conclude...
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Stop The Chase [on Two Artists Tuesday]
It’s difficult, seemingly Pollyanna-ish, to write about love when our nation is now officially divided and living in two combating realities. When Kerri took this photo on our back deck, I knew it was...
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Pay Attention [on Merely A Thought Monday]
I read this morning in my brainpickings, “We have to try and cure our faults by attention and not by will.” Simone Weil. Kerri and I walk almost everyday. We head for our known, usual trails, and only...
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Stroll The Esoteric Garden [on Not So Flawed Wednesday]
Lately, I am strolling the esoteric gardens and have picked for you these wild blossoms. First, my favorite quotes of the week: “Life is mysterious and transcends logic, so the living thing can never...
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Count What Is Right [on KS Friday]
As I came up through the garbage layer of sleep, that half-awake state where all the gunk of being human floats like detritus on the ocean awaiting consciousness’ return, I thought, “I want to have a...
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Sit On The Curb [on DR Thursday]
As much as our wily-ole brains would like us to believe otherwise, we can be nowhere else but in the present. Everything else is imagination. Years ago I belonged to a support group of independent...
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Receive The Message [on Two Artists Tuesday]
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw We just made a pact to lighten up. It’s not the first time we’ve made...
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Look To The Field [on Two Artists Tuesday]
“…if you observe your mind very quietly without giving explanations, if you just let the mind be aware of its own struggle, you will soon find that there comes a state in which there is no struggle at...
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Trip And Trip Again [on KS Friday]
One of the advantages of having stepped in every pothole, tripped on every cobble, and made every mistake at least twice, is that I’ve learned about potholes, cobbles, mistakes, tripping and stepping...
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Drop In [on Two Artists Tuesday]
We stopped on the boardwalk. The sentinel tree stood solitary in the field. Its presence stopped us in our tracks. It was a bone keeping watch over the marshes. It felt forgotten. Unreachable. Made...
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Mind The Deer [David’s blog on KS Friday]
We don’t always see them but we know they are present. The deer. We note their tracks and have learned where they usually cross the path. They follow careful pathways, game trails that are visible...
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