Becoming 2022

 2022

“Are you willing to be sponged out,

Erased - cancelled,

Made nothing?

Are you willing to be made nothing?

Dipped into oblivion?

If not, you will never really change!”

~D.H. Lawrence~

Word Of The Year: CONTENT

“Fun becomes Fun

Love becomes Love

Life becomes worth Living

And, I become Grateful”

Become Content

Good people do not argue, with life or with others, learn to say: You are right! And I appreciate you sharing your point of view with me.

Meditate.

Live Purely.

Be Quiet.

Do Your Work With Mastery.

Wanting Nothing, She travels alone.

NO STORM IN NATURE CAN LAST FOREVER.

Tracks

 

“Your tiredness has dignity to it. There is no shame in admitting you cannot go on. You have been on a long journey from the stars. Even the courageous need to rest.” ~Foster~

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” ~Eliot~

“We tend to blame others for why we’re feeling angry, but it’s important that we take a certain amount of responsibility.”

Follow the tracks of anger

Deep within the mazes of mind

When the end is near, it is you

I will see. Holding the cheese.

Cold Hard Winter

“Surrendering is a mental process: it involves taking a split second to stop yourself in your mode of judgment or frustration and have a brief talk with yourself on the spot. Just remind yourself to step back and be a witness rather than a protagonist, which you can do by providing a sanctuary for the feeling you’re judging. Invite Divine natural order in by simply allowing what you’re experiencing to go forward without criticism or control; in this way, you move to the center.”

I allow. Not because I have the control to allow, but because I have no control so I must allow. If you loved me you would try. If you needed me you would try. If I was important, you would make the effort. You would do some thing. You would do anything. You would stop the separation. We would know one another. You would apologize. And you would own your part. And you would make amends to me by changing your behavior in the future and treating me with respect. What is it that we see in this world? Why is the natural order so unnerving.  Pandemic. Loss. Grief. All encapsulated within the seed of new beginnings. A new day. A new year. A new chance. At a new life. 

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference.”

I will learn to live without you. Just as I once learned to live with you. Learning to live is the hardest lesson we will ever face.

Together Again

 “Just sit there right now 

Don’t do a thing

Just rest.

For your separation from God,

From love,

Is the hardest work

In this 

World.”

~Hafiz~

Dark Chocolate and Yellow Flowers

I rise,

With the morning light,

Internal clock set.

I’ve trained, My mind

First thought,

“THANK YOU GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY ON THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH”.

I move,

Slowly. In silence.

Boil water, steep tea.

Ritual infuses my day,

With ceremony.

Sip. Breathe…

Inhale for Seven seconds,

Hold for Four seconds,

Exhale for Nine seconds,

Hold for Four seconds,

Repeat.

I ask myself,

“Tanya, my dear friend,

What is it that you desire today?”

I pause.

Wait.

Listen.

I hear myself,

“Tanya, my dear friend,

I love dark chocolate and yellow flowers.”

I sigh.

“Yes!”

I smile.

Flow Like Water

“Speak the Truth

Give Whatever You Can

Never Be Angry”

~The Buddha~

ALL THAT IS MINE,

ALL THAT I HAVE, 

ALL THAT I NEED.

I HAVE!

IT IS WITH ME,

ALWAYS.

“How can a woman’s life keep its course

If she will not let it flow?

Those who flow as life flows know

They need no other force:

They feel no wear, they feel no tear,

They need no mending, no repair.”

~Bynner~

Flow, and Go Merrily Down the Stream

One Life

 

One Life, One Chance. When will it end? If today were the last day of your life, what would you do? How would your spend each hour? Where would you be? And who would you be with? Who would you call? Who would you say I Love You to? And who would you say I’m Sorry to? What memories would you cherish most, and what would you regret never having accomplished? One Life, One Moment, One Day, One Chance. 

From the moment that we are born, we only get one guarantee in life; and that is that we will die. You will die and I will die. In 100 years almost every single living creature on this earth will no longer be. Billions upon Billions of living organisms gone. Most forgotten.