Oh what a tangled web we weave

I’ve been watching Weeds, a show I discovered in 2012 when I had the Showtime channel for a promotional month.  Starring Mary-Louise Parker, I saw a half dozen episodes in 2012 and then forgot about it until I got Netflix and saw it on the lineup.  Score!  It took me a few months to get to it, but I began watching with Season 1, Episode 1 and watching a few in a row in the midnight hours.  It’s the first time I’ve done that, spent hours at a time immersed in a show and I used it as a format for observation, as I would had I stepped into their life with them.  I got to know each character and, thanks to excellent production and editing, got to feel I was right there with them during everything they went through.  Each day I’d take the events into my meditation, as I would my own real life previous day’s events.   Continue reading →

I just checked in with a friend who stood in front of Shiva at the altar this morning and did an invocation for the amount of $170. The bargain was if at the end of the business day there was $170, they’d do 10 minutes of Shiva chants. I just checked and $170 was the exact amount. They are chanting Om Namah Shivaya right now.

I much prefer the Love stamp

I went to the post office this morning and there was a long line so I went to the machine to buy stamps. It was my first experience with the machine.  The only first class stamps in the machine had a flag on them, so I opted not to buy any. My experience is flags are like bibles, people use them mostly to beat each other up with, so I never want to tap into that energy. On the upside, a mom with a kid on one hip and one tugging at her jeans was at the machine next, with a handful of change.  She didn’t have a credit card to buy her stamps so I ran my card for her stamps and didn’t take her change. Moms who care for their kids need every break they can get.  The mom and both kids all said thank you in unison as I left.  I felt like I’d just been blessed by three angels.

IF U HAVE MY CELL #: If you text me and I do not text you  back, that means I did not see it yet.  That means don’t drive an hour and show up at my door unless I’ve acknowledged I know you’re coming and I’m available.  Just because my body is in the office doesn’t mean I’m available. I acknowledge every text I see as soon as I see it because everyone deserves acknowledgment. But not everyone who appears at my door unannounced deserves my time.  The same with cancelling meetings.  If I did not respond to your text cancelling a 9am appointment, I’ll be there on time and may not look at my phone until 9am when I wonder where you are. Sending a second text is a courtesy that gives me an extra chance to hear the text ringtone come in, and would be mucho appreciated.

You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.  Jim Carrey

From his 2014 commencement address at Maharishi University

Big Brother Is Watching.  WHO CARES???

In the news, Reuters reports Police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, have begun wearing body cameras after the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by a white officer and differing accounts of the incident.  If you were a police officer, how would you feel about that?  Would you feel constricted in not being able to do your job without fear of recrimination or judgment? Or would you be pleased that an accurate record would be made for the record?  It would vary according to the individual.  An officer who feels confined by their job description would feel differently than an officer who does not.  Anyone who feels the need to operate outside the law is a criminal, whether they are wearing a uniform, or sweats and a hoodie.  Wear a camera for working with the public?  Would you? What if we all acted as though we’ve got a camera on 24/7?  What if we all acted as though everything we do is seen by everyone? When there are no secrets, there are no lies.  Do we really have to rely on technology in order to act with honesty and integrity, and within the law?

I don’t watch paranormal or horror chiller movies.  I basically don’t watch anything I don’t want to experience. I know what a good creator I am when I have a thought in my mind. I’d rather none of those thoughts be of me being chased by some maniac with unkind intent.

It makes me laugh to see someone with a big honking keychain locked to a belt loop when they only have one real key. The extra keys they carry around for the look. The older I get, the less excess weight I want to carry around to maintain some image of who I think I should portray other than who I really Am right now. The more pretense I let fall away, the more I float to the surface in sweet relief.