September 2011

Soggy Swampy Stuckness

September 21, 2011

I’m in a funk.  I’ve completely lost my mojo.  Can’t find it anywhere.  Haven’t been able to write.  I feel like I’m stuck in a massive, soggy swamp.  I suppose I could force my way through but it would take excessive amounts of energy.  For now, I’m just sort of sitting in it.  Letting it [...]

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A Beautiful Dead Lady

September 8, 2011

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.  Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeons knife, effective but unpleasant.  Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”  Sri Yukteswar These words made a deep impression, and the image of the beautiful dead lady stays with me. I grew up in the south and not [...]

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A Weird Expression of God

September 6, 2011

“To love both the invisible God, the Repository of All Virtues, and visible man, apparently possessed of none is often baffling!  But ingenuity is equal to the maze.  Inner research soon exposes a unity in all human minds–the stalwart kinship of selfish motive.  In one sense at least, the brotherhood of man stands revealed.  An [...]

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Eating Mindfully

September 1, 2011

I’ve been thinking about food a lot lately.  I’ve decided it’s time to clean up my act.  My diet has gone to pot in the past month with my move, Daddy’s diagnosis, and the death of Buttercup.  I’ve been eating crap and I feel like crap as a result.  Eating poorly also impacts me in [...]

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