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Tue, Mar 12, 2019 11:41:06 AM


🏱 stretching my potential  🏲
posted: Tue, Mar 12, 2019 11:41:06 AM

 

to its fullest, by dreaming **large** once more. as i was sitting in the meeting last night, in one of those few quiet moments, it came to me that i DO have a couple things i would like to do before very long. both require getting out of my rut and starting to make a few adjustments to my life to make them happen. i want to take Kathy to Machu Picchu and i want to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. both of those are certainly events i can start the process to achieve, starting with a bit of research.
this morning has not worked out the way i planned. i ended up at work and there are roofers on my house driving my poor dawg crazy i am sure. as i sit here watching the paint dry on my task, i get to pound this little ditty out. things have been far from a “rut” in my life right now. in fact, controlled chaos seems to be the rule these days, and i am more than ready to go back to a more placid existence. change, although inevitable and constant has been throwing more than a few screwballs lately. i have been waiting for time to breathe and perhaps i should just stop holding my breath and carry on.
i also have gotten the opportunity to “ask” for something as well from my job, the ability to get away on a very “big” weekend. still have yet to get the details down about that, so a bit more chaos to deal with as i let go and breathe. the task i am supervising is taking far longer than i anticipated and as a result i am getting more and more anxious about getting it done. managing the expectations of my client, is far from my favorite task on any day, and today it feels even worse. i am getting quite the lesson in powerlessness today as i have no power on how fast this process will go. so before i really start whining, i guess it is time to fly. it is a good day to be clean.

∞ DT ∞

 

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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 2

2) It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this disease
that we are preserved from it. The sage has not the disease. He knows
the pain that would be inseparable from it, and therefore he does
not have it.