October 6, 2018. Today the U.S. has taken a turn many of us deem disastrous. But why sit home and follow the predictable senate vote? Better to brave traffic tension, spend the hours with meditative peers. Not a word uttered about the politicians’ games. From the silence, I’ve come away determined to keep a beginner’s mind, to follow whatever comes next with curiosity, to remember that nothing happens in a vacuum, nothing escapes eventual change.
This verse formed in my head as I drove toward today’s gathering – an intention mantra of sorts. The image is yucca seeds, gathered temporarily before separating to spread yucca essence beyond original setting, mixing into varied landscapes.
Oh how I miss that sense of communal purpose. The spiritual release. Thanks for sharing
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VJ, thank you. Silence with others is powerful therapy.
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Yes, it’s sad about the calamities that the ugly powers that be are capable of. We need to transcend and be beyond all the madness and insanity. 🙂
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Tom, yes – transcend.
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I was obsessed with the news before the vote, then after the vote, I felt a weight lifted. What happens will happen. It wasn’t the result I had hoped for but we’ll just have to live with the consequences – for a very long time I suspect.
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Luanne, thank you. We the public see way more of certain aspects than we’d like … yet MANY aspects we do not see at all.
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I suspect so, Jazz.
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True ,”silence with others is powerful therapy”. Thank you for this, Jazz, “. . . nothing escapes eventual change.”
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Thanks, Lilie.
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