Christmas Morning 2022

Things are warming up a bit ... if you can call a 6 degree wind chill warmer ... and the sun is shining its radiant heat to the snow cover, like a gas stove pilot light under a tumbler of ice and rum. Ah, Christmas blessings for us all everyone. -- Smiley Fuzzyrumple

In the Christmas morning mailbox …

. . . .every time you eat, walk up the stairs or read a book, you are not the sole agent behind what you are doing, but are engaged in a process of co-creation – as much acted-upon as acting . . .We are co-constituted, co-acted and co-dependent on others – from the air we breathe to the ground that affords our walking. If we start seeing the world like this, it has the potential to make things much better for the many life forms that inhabit this planet. – Mercedes Valmisa

If you cling to the question, the answer will eventually be dictated by it. Such is the case for the human propensity for a search for meaning. An answer dictated by its question is not the meaning sought. Only by letting go of the question, entering the stream of The Way, will meaning then emerge from the flow. Meaning is found in sensation, in experience – not in the words pretending to be the answer to a question formed by other words.

[K]eep a limber mind and develop a tenderness toward existence . . . There’s no race. Where are we going anyway but right where we are? – Natalie Goldberg

More light. – Goethe