A sense of creativity and curiosity and the connection to others

death is certain
life is not

All the blessings of the New Sun to you and your families. Merry Christmas and a Happy Yule!

11:18

Grateful unemployment opens every minute to the transformative powers of not knowing. I stay pretty busy for a guy with no fixed schedule.

Through the garden. I tend to my own heart by building soil

Oh, the light and love! As much as I’d like to turn my focus to gratitude first order of each day, I’ve already had an argument with my tween son stemming from his fixation with online gaming and his inability to regulate his emotions. I spoke yesterday with a (former) colleague, in their twenties, who confirmed for me that video game dependency is real. It would bring my son joy for me to return the offending console like a clean needle would bring joy to the heroin addict.

I wish I’d done this years ago!

The beauty to which I attend today is still months off into the future. Perhaps “grateful unemployment” should be my focus

This beard was for Jesse

My parents, my in-laws, my wife and kids are well, my friends are young and beautiful, my (wife’s) cat’s awesome, I can still get high, I still garner respect; my whole life’s together in the palm of my hand. Life is an ephemeral and fragile thing and, these days, it’s good!

Carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, & potassium; a little half acre of dirt, all the microbes and mycelium that breathe it into life, and this precious time to appreciate and create with it.
Oh, and toilet paper!

Profound connections, for certain!. Relationships are the reflections of our own character, the expressions of the most likely of possibilities that bring meaning to our stories, always showing us new dimensions to our lives, weaving our pasts in with our futures. A pattern progressively emerges through connection, integration, an inevitable reunion and wholeness. Perhaps happenstance is simply a matter of perspective.

Whether it’s time or not, or if the clock is even accurate, I don’t know. The sequence 1-1-1-8 has followed me around all of my adult life and will jump out of any random array of numerals, as if conscious expressing like a chime, a clear tone, a call to presence.

Clever, indeed.

Careful you don’t fall into poor favor with peeps around here by being honest and grateful for what you’re honest and grateful for!

After the ordeal of replacing a simple plastic locknut that attaches the faucet to the basin in the bathroom this morning, I was almost ready swear off indoor plumbing forever! I’m truly grateful for patience when I exercise it.

I understand the challenges of dealing with estrangement from adult offspring, likely pain in every choice available. Bless you, Devonna. It would lift my heart that each of you discover a way through that heals and, maybe even, reunites you!