To be honest, I don’t see anything ending in my life at this moment. My life has been on an even keel. In fact I am more interested in what’s emerging, which are some new and somewhat uncomfortable insights about myself.

Staying with the breath, being aware of awareness itself, letting the content of a judging mind pass by like clouds, I find greater peace and equanimity and the ability to be with whatever is.

Beyond its basic biological reality life at its core is about being present to oneself, to others, in the world and some largeness of life.

I’ve had for sometime or rather pessimistic view of humanity‘s future given what I know about climate change.Sometimes I envision the positive in that, which is a much smaller remnant of humans living sustainably on planet earth with a much smaller footprint and a change in consciousness.

In order to cultivate compassion the Tibetan Buddhists have wise advice. Since we have all lived for beginningless lifetimes virtually everyone we meet has at one time or another in our mother. So mert each person as if they were your mother.

If I think of fun as diversion then I would say I watch TV that is entertaining. Go to movies occasionally, we eat out at some favorite restaurants, and I engage in some sports activities that are fun.

I am grateful for the large amounts of rain we have had, for my loving wife, my little kitty, the fact that I have legs to walk around a beautiful area where I live, and the fact that I can see well enough to read on my Kindle reader and to drive in spite of the fact that I have macular degeneration and one eye is pretty much gone in terms of its usefulness.

Moments of pure gratefulness for the gift of life like when I stepped outside for my walk one day, looked up at the blue sky and had an unaccountable heart opening as I felt such joy.

I am learning about some wonderful websites that help to identify birds by color, shape and region. On our daily walks my wife and I come across and aquatic sanctuary literally hundreds of white birds which so far we have identified as Egrets. They make a real racket, and are nesting, producing chicks.

I want to be a blessing and help to those in need, listen and bring joy to friends, be a loving parent and spouse, laugh more, cry when appropriate, reverence nature and die feeling I have fulfilled all on my plate given by life.

Last Sunday I was an usher at our church and an elderly woman walking slowly and steadily with a cane got out of the car and I immediately felt a sense of compassion for her. I asked her her name and she gave it to me as I extend my arm for her to lean on. I helped her up the steps into a seat promising her that the friend she was looking for would find her. It felt to me like a sweet moment, and good.

In my most profound moments of gratefulness came unexpectedly, and elicited a response deeper than happiness. I felt something sacred, perhaps the giftedness of life, and a blissful humility, that I didn’t have tistrivd. In those moments, life, God is ever giving.

Wife would feel second if I experienced the ordinary as extra ordinary.

Thanks for your perspective Kevin. The question misses the nuances in what pains us since it’s hard to pinpoint an end to suffering. It’s more like we learn to endure and walk with a limp.

Thank you Gregoir for your insightful thoughts,

Thanks Kenin. Great quote.

Happy birthday.💕

Howie, thanks for sharing. I’ve also heard that fresh water melt from Greenland may be disrupting the borthwsrd and eastward flow of the Gulf Stream, whic could cause cooling along the Esstern seaboard as well as the UK and Western Europe. Your thoughts?