In 1972, Scott Ferguson, who was a classmate with me at Rex Putnam High School, drove to Seaside, Oregon with a group of five friends for a wild weekend. He had an old VW Beetle, yet it made it to the beach OK. Tony Mecklem, Scott, Randy Olson, and Read more…
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily , merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.—-Nursery rhyme from traditional source. I have simultaneously traveled several paths on my way to the exit from the Labyrinth, and towards freedom from internalized trauma. One of the obvious ways was Read more…
The Way It Is—William Stafford There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Read more…
There are always multitudes of special sights to be seen by awakening souls on Love’s Infinite Path. Prayer, dreams, visions, mysteries, and enhanced understanding of our histories may become integral parts of the eternally unfolding scenery .I no longer look to the darkness for the light. I found my own light, Read more…
If it weren’t for the incredible spiritual strength, and wisdom, of my life partner, Sharon White, I would not have been able to have, what some people call, the following “cathartic event”. It was on a Thursday morning in February 2018, and I was preparing to go to the Pilates Read more…
Summer of 1992 I awoke one morning during the summer of 1992, and finished preparing to leave on a weekend hiking and camping trip with Sharon, up to the Mt. Adams Wilderness Area. We were planning to backpack into Lookinglass Lake, about a ten mile hike one way. My senses Read more…
Life’s journey is forever like a dotted line pathway. It is the quality of our connections with each other that fills in the space between the dots. Empathy is the major vehicle for our consciousness to transcend our apparent differences, enabling humans to connect the dots in a mutually affirming Read more…
My wife, Sharon, recently received a card from a long term friend, whom we both no longer consider to be a close friend. She is the widow of a dear,, departed friend, Marty C. In 2019, I wrote a manuscript for a potential book which was comprised of many of Read more…
1992 Dream in 1992 , while living in the Rock Creek area with Sharon, I had a most amazing dream, and for me to even be willing to share it with you is the miracle of love, and trust, that I have (only Sharon has ever heard it , and Read more…
Like a bumblebee, whose body is too big for his wings, it lifts up its heart, and then it sings, and then it flies. . . I want to fly, don’t you want to fly?-—Jerry Florence, and Alliance. I was almost invisible before I started writing, only seen by my Read more…
Add Mona Lisa Baby teaching here, perhaps We must first lose our mind, with its historical accumulation of knowledge and questionable theories and memories, to find theTruth underlying all of Life–Elisha Scott This is a bifurcation point, where the curious, and the attuned, diverge from the well worn path of Read more…
THE DREAM: At 8 years of age my dreams had finally evolved beyond the continuous nightmare phase that had greatly troubled me and the family. One night I had a most amazing and realistic dream. The dream unfolded as a first person experience, placing me squarely in the cross hairs Read more…
The thirteenth disciple rides again! Happy Easter to those who believe in the Easter Bunny, the risen Jesus, or whatever fact, mythology, or fantasy that keeps your spiritual row boat floating merrily and peacefully down the stream! I believe in the spiritual potential for all of us! The famous Read more…
“Your words are prayers spoken aloud so that others may share in your devotion. . . . What unknown deity, either good or evil in nature, are you praying to today?”–Elisha Scott “What you do speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you say”.–Ralph Waldo Emerson “Sticks and stones may Read more…
Joshua Tree to Old Town Temecula (uncensored version) Route 66 has ended for us, alas, yet we get to connect with family in Temecula. Joshua Tree National Park is amazing, to say the least, so that I will. A cactus called the cholla decided to jump onto my calf. Akiko Read more…
TRIBUTE TO PUTIN HURT (inspired by a song from Nine Inch Nails) I hurt the World today, yet I still do not feel I focus on my personal gain, which is the only thing that’s real. The rockets explode, bullets tear bodily holes, Oh, my favorite style of lethal bullying. Read more…
Day 8: afternoon edition Of course, after our visit in Winslow, immortaluzed by Jackson Browne and The Eagles, we needed to hike the Eagle’s Nest trail in Sedona! The spiritual energy and beauty of this area magnifies whatever native connection that the visitor has cultivated, and the three of us Read more…
After 8 years of loving service and devotion, with personal sacrifice, my wife Sharon White has passed the torch of Aunt Susie’s care on to the professionals at Mountain Park Memory Care. Susie is still quite competent for most of the day and evening, but her lapses due to 93 Read more…
We are about to take a creative, whirlwind tour through history, dating back to , perhaps, a million years ago or more. What was our mental atmosphere like back then, when mankind was first becoming conscious? With humanity’s dark history, the survival of the fittest evolutionary imperative, and the fear Read more…
We are about to take a creative, whirlwind tour through history, dating back to , perhaps, a million years ago or more. What was our mental atmosphere like back then, when mankind was first becoming conscious? With humanity’s dark history, the survival of the fittest evolutionary imperative, and the fear Read more…