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A Day In The Life…Of A Writer

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Gawd, up at 5 or so, busy on my iPad reading and studying some topics for entries on the blog:  Day Light Saving Time (DLS) (Note to self:  Just made the same mistake about spelling this title i.e.) adding an ‘s’ on Saving, but I caught it.

There are so many things to do today, and I am in bed reading and writing for 2 hours.

I love my breakfast this morning:  smoothie!

Get dressed, put in a load of laundry, put the chicken breast in the oven at 350 Fahrenheit, do all that bathroom stuff, more reading and writing, and my 30 minute meditation using the poem, “If” by Rudyard Kipling for inspiration.

Time to organize another block of time:  Microsoft Office Personal subscription (update credit card for this account), install Excel , do excel, update 40 apps on my iPhone, look up definition of innovate=introduce new method to make changes.  This will help to keep me motivated to read and write.

I have a to do list:  Walmart, garbage, stretches, watch documentary about Canadian Youth Unemployment, Snakes(eating up arm/body) (brain storm this imagery), war/poverty, foods, breathing, relaxing, impulse -control:  don’t watch T.V., Visit Mom and Sue, Shadow Work, Movie:  Man In The Iron Mask, Book:  Don Quixote by Cervantes.

I think I will reassess the list above:  they are prioritized as follows.

Garbage, Go to store(Yates street Market is the alternate-leave of Walmart till next weekend.), check in with mom and Sue, Start Reading Don Quixote:  intro “Author’s Dedication Of The First Part” is a lot of fun.

Well, iff, I am alive at the end of the day, the visit to my relatives included lunch and supper and an evening of entertainment.

Must get to bed by 8, I will be up at 4:30 AM for work tomorrow.

Another day.

 

 

This Is What I like (community and Stuff)

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Going out for a hike in the woods-take a hike.

It’s hard to say who is taking care of who.

There are some pretty helpful people, I just got to ask them.

Sometimes, my pride gets in the way.

Other times, I’m just ignorant-don’t know what to do.

I just happen to know, I like to fish.

It’s been a long time.

I use to go fish on the breakwater, or out in a boat.

I like fishing in the Cowichan River.

But, something is missing, I need someone to go with down by the river.

So, I guess, I need to find someone to ask for help.

I guess community means a lot to me.

My uncle and I went to this fishing derby.

I won an orange sleeping bag.

I think my uncle had a better time than me.

I went fishing with a my friend at the breakwater.

We caught a dog fish in the rain.

My friend had a much better time than me.

But I enjoyed being there with a friend, at this breakwater, even in the rain.

People getting together makes most activities enjoyable to me.

Especially, common interest, they seem to initiate the need to get together and spend time with people.

It’s funny, being with relatives, family, friends, and some acquaintances.

I like being with people.

The need to ask for help and the ability to do it.

I like learning how to do it.

There is a good community at home, abroad, and during my common interests or anywhere else I choose to be.

The Finite Optimist

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As Kipling once wrote, don’t make dreams your master, or thoughts your aim.

To act in accord with dream and thought is an art.

The proper action for the proper thought or dream requires a saints heart and an engineers mind.

It is practical to have a set of rules that allow us to uncover the secrets in life and explore the unknown.

We need to read far and wide and understand to envision the progress the future will hold.

Can you treat your body properly so it will function and stay healthy?

Can you process and build on earth to help it function and stay healthy?

These mysteries require discovery, recovery and more.

Go explore.

Progress(things are getting better and better)

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That’s to say current problems are the biggest challenge ever:  nuclear proliferation and climate change.

Education shows us that we are better than ever before.

This is a good time to live.

We can all contribute to the solving of current problems more because of past progress.

We are so much more than our ancestry and it will be true of the next generation.

Why not embrace life by struggling to see just how good our progress has been, will be and is at this very moment.

I dare you to watch this video:

 

We have broken things up pretty good.

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Mankind is still available for small group activities, and humanity is still raging on with death and destruction.

The goal is to understand competition, hatred and acting in self-destructive group-acts like war.

It’s not always polite to stare in the mirror.

Sometimes we need to go about the business of procreation, raising the family, community, going to work, etc.

It would have been nice to go to a four day work week, but we fucked that up when we started to think IT was the end all be all.

Technology and science by extension are pretty heady, but so is having a sanity for the individual and group to grow into the 21 century.

It seems like a good time to use old technology like mindfulness or meditation.

Old ideas like globalization can’t be all bad.

Things can still go south with unknown diseases, over population, poverty, natural disaster and more.

Never a dull moment with human consciousness.

What Life Gives Us All

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It is hard to describe the truth and beauty that unfolds in our lives.

It may be a sudden insult from a friend when we are at coffee.  Yes, just having a coffee with a friend.

It can be more joyful.  Perhaps, I am grateful because my sweetheart accepted my proposal of marriage.

But good or bad, I need to be present (or not) for each moment in my life.

Change is a big part of life.  Knowing is also an important ingredient.  And living each day is simply exquisite, no matter what life brings my way.

It’s not just about personal problems, joy still felt, understanding the answers, it is all of it.

Every piece, all the pieces make up our lives.  Sure, the journey seems the most important, or that beauty that came to me in the form of a poem or short story.

There are not enough words, or a good enough description to bring truth to the heart of all our lives.

Love is the answer or what we do or don’t do with hate.  Some of us are just happy to enjoy ‘what may come.’

Some of us love to try and count all our blessings.

The energy, be it reflections like feelings or thoughts, is a miracle.

Energy, be it the power that allows us to have yet another heart beat.

Or is it the way energy allows order and chaos to enter the universe?

I know, it is life itself that is the cure.

Refugee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee

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There are many wars in the world.

There are many hiding places for displaced people.

But what about coming here to Canada?

Is Canada open to accepting the refugee?

This is an official Government statement from our government website:

“Refugees are people who have fled their countries because of a well-founded fear of persecution. They are not able to return home. They have seen or experienced many horrors.

A refugee is different from an immigrant. An immigrant is a person who chooses to settle permanently in another country. Refugees are forced to flee.”

I believe the Canadian government when they make the above statement.

I know churches do their best to welcome people who are finding their way in the world.

I know individuals struggle with accepting the refugee.

“All Saints” is a movie about an actual church and refugees.

A movie is a poor substitute for a connection to people who struggle to rebuild their lives.

Yet, people make it to our country and find a new home and a new life.

Good luck to all the new people who find themselves in a new culture and new country.

 

 

Describing The Beauty Of Life

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Being mindful-meditation is slowing down. Or this practice or schedule focuses on several points that enhance your life.

First, you become aware: calm, still, silent. Your sensations brighten because you are living within your limits.

Like a lotus, your being unfolds or opens up to living in the here and now.

Your faculties of reason, concentration, and emotional well being are calm and seem to sharpen or become stronger due to a slower pace, a more restful disposition or practice.

This is true of all your faculties of mind. For example, when we are calm, we feel more apt to be spontaneous. And spontaneity with our faculty of imagination can produce feelings of surprise. It feels like we are becoming better at using our imagination because our use is better or well.

When I am present and allow my being to flow at its natural rate, it feels as though I am living for the first time in years. It really is like being in the zone. When a runner uses this schedule to do a practice, he finds that some practices seem better than others. He makes fewer mistakes. He feels he is running better. He calls it effortless or being in the zone. It is the Tao of Runner’s or being mindful of being!

Is there more than one way to be in the zone or is there only one way to be? Can we all be wrong sometimes? Can we all slip into the proper use of impressions, mindfulness, in the here and now, the zone, The Tao, Being religious of some kind…, a state of mind…

Do all roads really led us to the proper way of being? Philosophy likes us to believe in this premise. To activate the way to release our life as life is meant to be. No harm, no guilt, no speed, no sorrow, no fear, no lack of being, just the here and now, being the way we are best at being…

To believe in this state of being is a way to access the zone or practice. There are several points that help to activate this state of being: a phrase to keep peace in the mind, meditation to keep peace in the mind through the waking hours, slowing down to keep peace in the body, many habits will change as a result of continuing these points in a schedule or practice.

Of course, a willingness seems necessary, as does a practice or conscious effort. However, we are able to fall into this present moment when we gravitate towards it. This is the center of who we are and requires the least effort to maintain or live this way.

Many people live this way at the bare minimum. And fewer and fewer people live this way, yet more and more live this way. As fewer and fewer groups live this way… More and more people live this way and round and round we go. At different moments we catch awareness of this state and describe it.

There is no faculty to keep us here unless we are willing. And we can’t be willing unless we have some kind of faith, willingness or ability to attain it. However, it is not here to harm. It is a simple gift: life.