The story plays out in scenes written as posts. Here you’ll find them listed, from beginning to end. (See About to learn how this story came to be, and why.)
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Letting go ~ Won’t you stay? Jackson Browne soothes the road.
The last time I really, really had a hard time letting go, I took a road trip through the American West. Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona … Every time I’d see a white Toyota Highlander on the highway (you can’t imagine how many there are, especially in rural California) I’d think of her.…
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Adama and Roslin ~ Discovering love in the quiet moments.
[jwplayer mediaid=”4107″] One of many beautifully rendered scenes from the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica. Admiral William Adama has fallen in love with Laura Roslin, President of the Twelve Colonies of Cobol. He hasn’t told her yet. He hasn’t even admitted it to himself, yet. But he is just about to. For the…
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You can’t make an omelette without chopping a few mushrooms
On a sunny Sunday morning The world outside my kitchen window not yet stirring But for songbirds singing And the rustle of leaves in the breeze Chop chop chopping mushrooms The sharp chef’s blade falling falling falling On the cutting board, slices of mushroom brushed aside Readied for sizzling butter and onionsEach strike of knife…
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Our fetish for stuff ~ Wallace Shawn and Karl Marx give you the shirt off their back…
The FeverOne day there was an anonymous present sitting on my doorstep — Volume One of Capital by Karl Marx, in a brown paper bag. A joke? Serious? And who had sent it? I never found out. Late that night, naked in bed, I leafed through it. The beginning was impenetrable, I couldn’t understand it,…
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Now and Love
If I can make the time for it Give it my full attention Allow the experience To permeate my being There is no future reward No past achievement More meaningful More fulfilling More exquisite Than the experience Of this very moment Now There are but two secrets To living fully, completely The other is Love…
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Argument is a Defense of Ego
I remind myself Every discussion is worth entering Every argument is worth leaving One is a journey of discovery One is a defense of ego
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What will be flows naturally from there
Accept what is Let go of what was And have faith in what will be. So true, and so easy to say. I’m guessing, because I’m unenlightened, but those actions may finally become easy once I have achieved enlightenment. From all I’ve read, they are integral practices for achieving it. From my own experiences, I…
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Pledge allegiance to love
If we all pledged allegiance to love rather than flags there would be no war A thought which came to mind this morning. I knew immediately which image I wished to apply it to. I don’t know who the artist is (it looks like a Banksy), but I found the image here.
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Perceiving Spirit
Close both eyes; See with the Other one. Cover both ears; Hear with the Other one. Quiet my mind. Open my heart. Peer into infinity. Listen to my body. These senses Perceive my spirit, The true nature of self. Spirit is in all things. I look for it there. Its voice resonates in my body.…