Do you use relationships as your mirror?
There's a photo of me as a toddler---maybe a year old---where I'm sitting on a kitchen chair in the yard, holding a small, handled mirror. The story is, giving me the mirror was the only... More »
There's a photo of me as a toddler---maybe a year old---where I'm sitting on a kitchen chair in the yard, holding a small, handled mirror. The story is, giving me the mirror was the only... More »
I don't really. I'm not saying I couldn't enumerate various attributes or characteristics, identify myself by things I occupy myself with, friends I keep ( birds of a feather... ), and so on. I could,... More »
Gosh, you mean time is for real??? Ok, let’s say it is, if only for the sake of this exercise that asks me to look at my life in terms of the question: What if... More »
Security? Whenever I have opted for security I have ended up in a rut. I don’t think that’s an accident. The whole idea that we can be safe is bogus, sham, an illusion, an idea... More »
That what I see, experience, think, has any bearing on the way anything really is.
None. Character traits are surface phenomena, labels we attach to people so we can sort them neatly into piles for some purpose, like sorting laundry into whites and darks before throwing it in the washing... More »
I'm not as a rule given to wishing for things to be different than they are, since nothing really changes without acceptance of what is (there may be the illusion of change, but not authentic... More »
To let go. To let go of the illusion that what I see, hear, smell, feel, etc, is the way it really is. How can it be, when you and I witnessing the same event... More »
I'm the reader, savouring the words, thoughts, metaphors written there, turning the pages one by one, eager to see: "and then what happened?" It's a damn fine story, you see, a proper page-turner. I'm also... More »
I don't need to change a single thing. I am done rejecting pieces of me, regardless of what I or others think in moments of weakness needs changing. Believe me, there has been enough rejection in... More »