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Posted: Sun, Nov 15, 2020 03:11:02 PM

how to live is certainly NOT one of the requests i make willingly, even after a few days clean. when i got here, i thought i knew how to live and the suggestion that IF i wanted long-term recovery, i would have to change the manner in which i was living, fell upon deaf ears. even these days, i think i can run my life better than any suggestions i may get from the POWER that fuels my recovery, through the deeds and words of my peers and trusted associates. so i plot and plod my way through my life, wondering what i am missing. when i trip back to STEP THREE, i “get it.”
today, is not one of those days. as i may be way off my routine, i am not bothered by having to go with the flow. sure there are bunches of unresolved “issues” filling my conscious life. i am waiting for news on my job opportunity, i have to return the “hell” of my current job, i am tired of this whole sham election angst by the BIGGEST LOSER, i am weary of living in plague times, i am doing my late season fade in Fantasy Football and i wonder whether, or not my parents will be getting any better. all of that aside, i can be okay when i stop dwelling on what is not or yet to be revealed. today, i am going to continue with my little vanity project, even if i am not selected for a new job. i am going to watch some football, even if the home team sucks. i am going to head up the hill to check in on my parents. just for right now i can finish my laundry and be okay with whaat maay come, even if it is a suggestion or three about how to live.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ 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

3) He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without
desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them
from presuming to act (on it). When there is this abstinence from
action, good order is universal.