The act of remembering and honoring, it seems reasonable to make this assumption, should make us stop and stare and consider the impermanence of all life.

I’m not sayin’ that we didn’t do right. Our shadows knew, when they came out to the light.

What’s the knowin’, how’s it goin’, is that the last of the rain?

The rain comes down.
The earth gets wet.

The hard truth is that if we are asked to ‘love others like ourselves’, then the place to start is to be as objective as possible as we check to determine how we are doing with loving ourselves!

And on these days
I am
grateful and
content.

As long as the major incentives and the perceived model of a good human life are grounded in non-renewable consumption to satisfy our desires, we are doomed.

I need to reestablish the process of stopping, breathing, stilling, and centering.

How does one cross the lonely canyon?

I cannot say that I feel one way or another about more life in this aging body. I direct most of my energies into seeing all the great aspects of being alive and being aware, and being grateful.

And how nice, love embracing you…

Of course, the frustration, which later turns to acceptance, comes from acknowledging and allowing that each human being must learn about reality and suffering on their own.

The full-embrace nature of Argentina Tango had therapeutic benefits for Adam. Dancing for Adam was a positive way to visit a proven refuge—the reassurance of touch.

a poem…

It is important that you know he fully embraced his imperfections. Talking with him and assessing his demeanor, it was clear that he took responsibility for his many weaknesses and failures, and I sense he was fully committed to a practice of truth and love.

It was an innocent love, a child’s love—a love that has not really progressed from my feelings in those days.

If a part of my mind could form those words, or relay that meaning, then it would mean I do not know who I am or what I am saying. Was I in a fugue state? Was I misunderstood?

There are huge eternities without a body. That very rarity suggests we cherish what we have while we have it, don’t you think?

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I had been in Paris for a while and it is hard to believe that even Paris, given enough time, could seem as routine and mundane as any other place in the world. Since I had come to that point, to that feeling, it was time for a change.

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