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Evening Reflections

19 Tuesday Feb 2019

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I’m sitting in the leather recliner, reflecting on a satisfying day. I did the usual stuff, AA, swim at the Y, made the black bean/quinoa vegan chili and am generally satisfied with the result. I need to perhaps adjust the spices; it’s a little too sweet from the tomatoes

I visited my AA buddy recovering from a stroke. I had fun justify sitting with him and his girlfriend, listening to Classic Country music, Johnny Cash and his contemporaries.

I have congestion and a running nose. I could sleep too. Life is good.

Later Loves 💘

Rebound

13 Thursday Dec 2018

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A lot of the negativity that characterized recent posts has dissipated. I simply have been doing the next right thing. I keep my focus, laser intense, on what is positive, healthy, and on things which I can change.

The decrepit car is holding up.

I have been having a wonderful time cooking low-fat, low carb, low gluten dishes. I swim almost every day.

I am grateful for the love of real world family and friends, plus those I know through the digital world. Thank you especially Jade and Olivia.

Black Friday/Thanksgiving

21 Wednesday Nov 2018

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Why?

It’s about our money that we give to Wal Mart, Amazon, Target, Macy’s, the others. They, in turn, bought stuff, from the Chinese, among others. They spent vast fortunes to acquire these things. They recoup their outlay and a little something extra for their trouble, costs and profit. Thus the great cycle of commerce completes itself.

By now, the disassociation with the Christian Holy Day of the Solemnity of The Nativity is almost complete. The Santa Claus Myth prevails. It is childish, naive, uncomplicated, readily dispensible once the child reaches seven or eight, and readily grasped again once these children grow up to become parents or aunts or uncles themselves. Another cycle completes itself.

What is stifled by Black Friday is that modest holiday of gratitude, Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving isn’t particularly Christian; gratitude for God’s blessings is present in the Christian world view, but that “attitude of gratitude” is part of many other spiritual traditions. Just the idea of being quiet and humble and grateful requires not a grand display of agricultural abundance but a grateful heart. We need to be quietly thankful for that sophisticated society that connects us all and gets food to our tables. Acknowledging our interconnectedness forces us to drop our pretences of selfishness, self-sufficiency and independence. We get by in this world because we work with people we don’t particularly care for.

Humility, Quiet, Gratitude.

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