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๐ŸŽŒ well, i hope ๐ŸŽŒ

Posted: Fri, Oct 3, 2025 04:48:29 PM

i am wrong! and do my best to mean it. it is true, that i do not always know the best way to carry the message and have wound up on the wrong side of group conscience, more than once. the seed i started with, was not the first thing that popped off the stack, when those rare times occurred. no i usually walked away in a huff and if their “solution” fell apart, was the first in line to say i told you so. the last time that happened, however, i did walk away, hoping things would work out and decided it was time to exit stage left from committee service, with no hard feelings or regrets. i was correct in the long run, oh well, shit happens and i do not need to go there. as i grow up ion my recovery, i see more and more, that even when i may be correct, i do not need to remind anyone else of that fact, they probably already realize it.
i am writing this really late in my day. my plan of the day, was to get up, write this and get the dawg walked before climbing Mount Audubon. that eight mile six hour hike was what this old man needed this morning, to get out and moving. even though my morning slipped away an d i did not get the dawg walked or this exercise written, that day was perfect. i have been spending way too much time in front of my computers, when i have other stuff to do. i have a third step that is kicking my ass. i have a book club book that i have not even looked for. i am currently running low on funds and i have yet to make many moves to find a McJob to tide me over until the one i desire, comes in. just for today, i am okay with what i did today, even if my plans went awry and there is no one to whom i owe an admission of being wrong, or an i told you so. all in all, not a bad day to be clean!

∞ 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

2) We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications
of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves
into agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the
Tao is, as if it would ever so continue!