Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.

- Rumi


Birdsong brings relief
to my longing
I'm just as ecstatic as they are,
but with nothing to say!
Please universal soul, practice
some song or something through me!

- Rumi

Crowded House

Every day I wake up with another song on my heart.

Interesting findings at the beach

 On a beautiful December 21st, I walked down to the beach to see what the day would bring.

 Multiple trees washed up with the same letters carved into them. They all appear to be main-masts from a very old ship wrecked long ago.

No nails or screws. Someone constructed this arrow pointing in a fixed direction. So I followed.

What a beautiful day it was.

And in the emerald forest you'll find glowing majestic living things like this!

Truly He is Born!

Apple Tree Concentrate.

If I ever saw a suit axe beefing in the ring with wild cats on the punch, Mohammed Ali Baba wouldn't stand a chance against these ruffian tigers nashing!  Gggggrrrrowl! Wow! Get back! I get it! Go tell it on the mountain! So many cats in one basket there's bound to be a squeel! Put down your dukes! And your straw filled boots you scarecrows and get yourself off the stairs! There's plenty water in the ocean... You just can't drink it!

The light is shining warmly.

Contradiction Pigeon.

Did you ever stop to think about the people we kill?
They're always the people who tell us to live together
in harmony and try to love one another;

Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy,
Bobby Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X,
Martin Luther King, John Lennon.

They all said: "Try to live together peacefully."
BAM! Right in the fuckin' head.
Apparently we're not ready for that!

- George Carlin

I'm having some breakfast and coffee on First Hill at the Corner Cafe today, and I remember how I've always felt sad seeing people in a restuarant eating alone.

Some people might persecute you for your personality.
In todays winds of change, through the eyes of much of the American youth, so many people are dismissed as "awkward". Every time I hear a person say, "whew, THAT was awkward!" after talking to someone they didn't know and was "different" to them, I wonder... Why was that awkward, asking that stranger where the bathroom is? The guy seemed introverted, and a bit shy, but answered helpfully. So what! He's not the hip, bubbly, overly outgoing, entertaining person you expect people to be? So what! He's him. You're you. He/She might be totally comfortable in their skin. And you might not be. Or vise versa.
The same goes for so many "different" personality types.
Sometimes I do something similar when it comes to judging myself..
You may know what people are expecting in common social situations, and know when they are let down from their own expectations. I have spent almost a lifetime researching the patterns and changes in social cultures.
In 2013, social influence supersedes most impressionable young people over anything else. What they say and do is micro-capsulated by what they see through the bubble they live in.
Which is why everything out of their perfect norm seems odd or awkward to them. They live in a bubble. A bubble of style. A bubble of television or radio. A bubble of music. A bubble of spirituality. A bubble of religion. A bubble of family. A bubble of solitude.  A bubble of work. A bubble of politics. A bubble of particulars.
In most cases of being stuck in your bubble, your conclusion of the outsider will always end up the same: they're not like you. They don't quite fit. They don't fit your expectations. They're not like everyone else you know.
The worst persecution someone can face may even come from within their own family.
Now THAT is awkward. Awkward because no one should feel this way in the presence of family.
If your own family has a hard time with your presence, social cultures may be interfering with perception and expectation. Within a family, this is never comfortable to respond to.
Whats missing here is the lack of the understanding of love.
You may love yourself enough, and you may love your family too, but if you don't see and feel welcoming love from your own family members because you are different in some ways, you may feel the opposite of that.

LIVING LIFE WITH A GOOD HEART The Antidote to Selfishness By Lama Thubten Yeshe

There is no way to get everlasting satisfaction unless you change your attitude from one of holding yourself to one where you open your heart and dedicate yourself to others. If you can do this, you are guaranteed of satisfaction and will never be lazy. The selfish mind is incredible, worse than a knife in your heart. Selfishness kills you, destroys your life. All the political troubles in the world today come from the selfish attitude. It doesn't matter what the object of your selfishness is - your own reputation, your own nation, the planet's resources, money the selfish attitude is the main troublemaker. We kill each other because of the self-cherishing thought, holding ourselves dear and not worrying about the welfare of others. All bad relationships - between husband and wife, guru and disciple - come from the selfish attitude. When you think about it, you can see that every problem on earth comes from being concerned for oneself instead of others. Selfishness is painful, really painful. If you want to be free of the pain in your heart, open it by developing universal concern for others, bringing all sentient beings into your heart as much as you possibly can. That is the antidote to the selfish attitude that is the pain in your heart. I truly believe that this is the way to liberation.

Oh dears.

Usually, little children say the most completely obvious yet randomly valuable and crushingly adorable things that fill me with joy in the most needed moments.

A Happy New Year.

 "Happy new year, Year!"
"Happy new year, Luke.
The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the seagulls are flying, it'll be a good year for you."

Unconscious/Conscience Love Contrasted

An unconscious love starts in the heart and tickles the mind, but does not reconnect with the soul.
An unconscious love waits in the heart while it tempts the mind, but does not employ the soul.
An unconscious love possesses the heart like a prison, breaks down the mind like a malfunction, and becomes blind to the needs of the soul.
An unconscious love burns in the heart, whirlwinds the mind, and does not remember the soul exists.

A conscience love reconnects with the soul, fills the heart, and frees the mind.
A conscience love reconnects with the needs of the soul, fulfills the heart, and opens the mind.
A conscience love is the soul being fulfilled, becoming the heart, and filling the mind with love.
A conscience love is the soul purpose, opening your body and mind to fulfillment of itself in communion with others.

Mona Lisa, Nat King Cole

Fairytale of New York

Christmas is a time we're supposed to be  with the ones we love.

The Zen Porch.

Maybe meditating on the porch has brought about the amount of Sun we've had lately here in West Seattle. Or, maybe yesterday being the beginning of the Bronze Age of time when the Sun's orbit has aligned with the Sirius sun on opposite axis but are ascending now, not descending anymore, has brought this to us. The sun's orbit definitely affects/coincides with our human conscience. So maybe since there's been full sun since yesterday morning, Seattle's outlook will from now on be sunnier than ever known before!

"The Song of the Conscious Ant"

This world can offer me the desires of my ego

This world can offer me the figments of my youth

I can carry my life on my back up to the top of the earth

I can stand at the edge of the corner of the continent

I can move like the sea and work like the bee

As though mine is the only work that exists

Until I reach the pinnacle of faith in God

And stand at the ledge of the western corner of the world

And shout up to the sky, to the universe, to the Heavens, to God,

"Can you see me now?!

I am an ant on this earth

Like a pin prick in a vast of holes
Conceived for one form in unity

I have no desire to be seen

No desires for any things

But, for the world I left for this one

The world of life in my dreams."

Just Another Day to Begin.

What if.. December 21st is just another day?
What if you woke up today and everything seemed to be just like the day before? 
What if something passed through our sleeping, vulnerable mind?
What if a change occurred?
What if it was a change in our conscience as a humankind?
What if suddenly everyone became aware that something was different.
What if it was easy to love.
Not possessive love. 
Love through believing.
Maybe a mass consciousness of human beings will believe finally love IS the way, the truth, and the life. 
What if you woke up today and felt different. 
What if you only had the capacity to love your neighbor as yourself. 
What if you woke today and you just knew your heart was opened wider. 
What if today the more people you past by the more love you felt for each of them. 
What if today you talked to a friend and noticed them with a new light and they in you.
What if Christ's love woke you up with blinding white light.
What if it encompassed your whole vision?
Like you've suddenly went blind
And had no control of opening and closing your eyes
You couldn't see anything at all but brilliant light.
All you could do was believe in the light.
What if that all occurs within us, and we have the choice to live in that light or fight against it within ourselves. 

"Fear not, for I am with thee"  Isaiah 41:10

"Be still and know I am God" Psalm 46:10

"The only thing to fear, is fear itself." FDR
"All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself." Jesus Christ
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  John 13:34

Choose to live in love. Nothing else. 


Not in fear. Not in judgement. Not in selfishness. Not in denial.

Jericho.