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Scrambled cities: If you're not gonna do the work(on your soul), then you might as well work til you die

 There are two tiers in normal life. Those who are survive and those who thrive.  But nothing is a mistake in life: Nothing comes by chance. You have to prepare for it.  If you thought life was about making money and beating out the Jones's, you've lost already.  Life is: Desire for connection. All unhealthy competition is isolating. We live in an isolated-enough world already. This connection comes from a surprising place: Self-acceptance. A lot of us need to go back to the classroom. A lot of us need to take a silent breather and check in with what we need. This takes serious work. It's the real work. It relies on respect for others and self-respect.  A lot of people in the self-help community try to push the self aside: Manning up is the only side of it they see. But there are certain non-negotiables in this life. Certain things we can't cheat ourselves out of. We are not a piece of meat being acted on.    However, this is where God comes in. Some o...
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I was Caught inside your yawn

 


There was this helpless deer that came running into the garden one day and I saw more or less the same thing again today. A 20 year old child behind one of those clear tarpaulins outside a shop on the main road in my small town. She was yawning and she was just sitting there on this cement bench that ran perpendicular to the pavement so you could see pajama trousers and feet dangling as if about to walk to the fridge or out into a garden. She'd gone with her parents in a warm car and was waiting for them outside the shop and she was still not ready to confront everything or didn't want to, and she was looking around in the most honest, natural way there is to look at things. Everyone remembers that child I thought. Every beggar, every housewife, every street cat, everyone remembers meeting her or being her, and when you turn back around the blackness of hell was upon you, and nothing made sense, and the child would be okay because she didn't have to answer to any of it

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