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Fri, Dec 23, 2016 11:48:28 AM


✫ to become ✬
posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2016 11:48:28 AM

 

something more.
Phase two we wait -- phase one went well we are safe and sound in the USA and waiting for our next hop home. It has been a long morning of movement north and west, and now that I have a bit of down time, I am going to post my first live post in a week. Oh I have a few others that I will be adding over the day, but I wanted my live one to go first. So there just may be a flurry of activity on this site after a week of ghostly silence.
First off I am clean and in no danger of graduating the program any time soon. I have had a few “bright” ideas over the past week, as the “normal” vibe was starting to rub off on me. Yes and the tropical attitudes were as well, after all mon I am from Colorado and I do not want to even total up the number of times in the past week I was asked if I brought something legal down to the tropics with me. So it goes, the lesson this addict learned was it is not a very good idea to slack on meetings before vacation and to be prepared for unwarranted assumptions once the other 85% figures out that I am from Colorado. What a concept, accepting who and what I am, and taking steps, not only the 12 in the book, but making preparations for being out of touch, before I get out of sorts.

TJ
Congrats on 6 years clean
Keep Coming Back.


Looping back to the notion of becoming something more is not a bad place to be. The past two weeks has been an exercise in what I can do and just get by. Getting by is okay, but I do not do this gig, day after day to just scrape by. I stay clean just for today, because I want to thrive PERIOD. I have seen what happens to addicts who settle for just getting by and I am unwilling to subject myself to that abject misery. No sir, no way I want to be something more today that I was yesterday, even if that means that I have to listen to and implement a new idea or three. Anyhow I m going to work on getting the rest of my vacations posts up and posted, so watch out friend, family members and fanboys, I am back.

∞ DT ∞

 

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Another Look!

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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

THE TAO TEH KING, OR THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 1

1) If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would
be better for the people a hundredfold. If we could renounce our benevolence
and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial
and kindly. If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard
our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.