Thinking is not being present I think therefore I am. — Descartes (1637) Latin: “Cogito, ergo sum” What may be lesser known is this: Soon thereafter, Descartes revised his own saying, to: “I am, I exist.” (1641) Now, THAT’s the spirit! When you’re thinking, you’re ‘mulling.’ You’re ‘somewhere else.’ Thinking takes you away from, or […]
Second things first “It’s become so automatic, I don’t even think about it when I’m doing it.” “It is so ‘second nature,’ I could do it in my sleep.” What if we put our second nature first? What if our second nature became our first nature? When we say something becomes second nature, we mean […]
Things we rotate “Rotate your tires” “Rotate your mattress” “Rotate your crops” Evenly distributed wear and tear threadbare tattered torn instead tread tread lightly leaving a gentle footprint and an easeful sharing and carrying of the load For your consideration: There is something to be said about […]
Structures What does it mean to have a structure? It is a framework A template Something that holds something together? To deconstruct– Is that to destroy? To “unbuild” what was built? What then is instruction? To in-build as in to build-in a set of instructions to follow To create something consisting of parts […]
April Showers Showering me with Raindrops on noses and young sisters with kittens Freshly washed sheets and soft white flowing linens Hung on the clothes line out in the Spring air With hopes that warm breezes soon will be there These are a few of life’s wondrous blessings so […]
Time change Time marches on And waits for no one Or, does it? Daylight Saving Time Are we saving daylight or saving time Both Neither What difference does it make if at all Who does the changing We change our time pieces Do we change […]
Wash away Wash away With the tides all that no longer holds us in our victimhood All that is too salty too painful in what was once upon a time an open wound No longer open But now healed and firmly held in abundant love and full forgiveness No longer open for […]
We the people in order to form a more perfect union “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity, do ordain and establish […]
Loving the world, all of it What if we loved the world today? I mean each day, every day, we lived as if we were in love with the world, and treated it as a sacred gift? I’m not talking about spiritual bypassing (whatever that really means exactly), nor positive thinking for positive thinking’s sake. […]
Transition of power Transition of power Power through the transition of power with transitive properties Moving from one phase to another From one hand to another Amidst the mist of misty eyed mystics Among the shadows and the light of the waiting and the wading In pools of disappointment only to […]
