Handmade Shoes

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Category: How to Live a Human Life

  • 1/16/12 Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday (Observed)

    I have been listening again to don Miguel Ruiz’s Voice of Knowledge and thinking about my life creation. For many years I have listened to this periodically, but since June I have listened to it many times, and each time I hear it as if for the first time. I am working toward believing in…

  • Summer Solstice

    Bless you who are in the dark–may you find light in everyday things. This blessing is a product of great pain. It was only through accepting my pain–the fact of it–instead of struggling against it that I began to find comfort in the everyday. The plain, homely events and interactions that are the true bread…

  • The Parade of Ants

    February 13, 2008 The parade of ants….Each of us the Indra of her or his own life, and if we succeed in slaying the dragon that hoards the water of life (society and its demands upon the individual to accept its version of life as the only one), we become all powerful–the creators of our…

  • Mote and Beam II

    It doesn’t matter what others think of you–it matters what you think of others. It doesn’t matter what others think of you–it matters what you think of yourself. This is the crux of the admonition: “Judge not that ye be not judged.”

  • Infatuation and Love

    I just want to listen to that song again So I won’t forget how it feels Not like every day isn’t alive But I forgot Not like every day I don’t see beauty But I forgot how beautiful it all is ∞         ∞         ∞ I have a theory about…

  • January 3, 2006

    And is a creative word. The great AND. This I was able to write last night before collapsing back into my hard-won sleep. It was after midnight before drowse overtook an abnormal state of agitation (source unknown) and I fell asleep, only to waken from a dream with these words on my mind. A heavy…

  • The Mote and the Beam

    What matters is what I am thinking, not what others are thinking. That’s really what it all comes down to. I can’t change what is happening, necessarily, but I can change what I think about what is happening. I make the choice, every moment.  ∞  ∞  ∞ Verily, from one perspective it is bullshit for…

  • A Main Theme

    It’s only when we try to twist ourselves into unnatural (for us) shapes in order to conform to some perceived expectation that we go bad. Or crazy. It matters not what others think of you, because they will not be there when you die. They may be beside you, but no one but you can…

  • April 2 (2003)

    Yes, I’m breaking out my handmade shoes, and they are patched together from many things.  ∞ ∞ ∞ Nothing to it but to do it. So many thoughts pouring through my consciousness, the way the streams are flowing across the land. Watched Waking Life, a film by Richard Linklater, last night and again today. It…

  • A Little Bit o’ Mystical Humor

    “I am that I am.”   ~ Yahweh “I yam what I yam.”  ~Popeye

  • People

    My kryptonite and my lifeline. What I think people think I should be or am, and fighting against it. Meeting people and exchanging various forms of love, nourishing each another, often in the most ordinary places (passing a stranger on the sidewalk and sharing a smile). I’m lucky to tread a balance, but often stray…

  • A Thought from Grandpa Joe.

    We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger…