I'm in build mode but she's coming along nicely.

I've already had one power cut today.

This will be the 5th of the year.

And yet, we're not changing our anthropocentric ways and means or not enough now to make any difference to the direction of existential travel.

God helps us all.

Imagine someone from the dim and distant past sending you one.

What would it say?

Or what would you like it to say?

Perhaps I'm an oddity, but I'd love someone to explain to me how we went from there to here in such short order, and if there is, as I'd like to hope, a little better than these hegemonic times.

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It's become a meme.

And that's not good in these materialistic times.

But I think it still worth developing both as a skill and action.

I know that I have much work to do, and right now, I am taking my cue from an 18th-century Japanese poet, Ryokan.

I don't expect to take things as far as he did, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit to wanting a very ( Read more... )

It looks like I've secured a new job.

I'm waiting on the paperwork.

One question I was asked:

Have you ever felt you belonged at any of the companies you've worked at?

I did answer it but I came very close to saying no.

Out and about.

No dogs today.

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I've a hard time buying into the notion that by reading a book, attending a retreat or listening to another speaker we'll be changed beyond all recognition.

In short, you cannot sell "The Master Game" as Robert S. de Ropp would have called it.

Instead, you've to come to matters yourself.

This koan might be a good place to start:

"Who am I?"

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