Two signs appeared yesterday, one on the street where I live and the other on the internet highway where I play. Conley’s Photographics has a new look, thanks to the art of James Hargrave, my 30 something friend who came back to Blackstone to plant his life and grow a sign business. And this Wyde-Angle.com blog is about ready to move to a new name and address: we-are-awakening.com Read More…
Posted under current events
This post was written by ed on February 22, 2009
Yesterday was mainly Driving Miss Mom. We went to get her hair cut in Petersburg (45 miles away) where her hairdresser sweet talks her, not knowing that she complains about his cut after she leaves, then 50 miles away to return a hip hugging pair of slacks that she had tried on when she bought them at Talbots, where I feel asleep in the waiting chair while she shopped for 30 minutes and didn’t buy anything, then to Macy’s where she needed some lipstick now that Dillards had closed, but Macy’s cosmetic department was on the other side of the store and she got tired half way there and we had to go back; then we stopped at Barnes and Noble (my trip) for a book see and coffee (I got a book on Buddha (can’t have enough Buddha books) and a peanut butter cookie (boy, was I rushed), and then we went to Costco where she sat in the car while I got a pickup load of toilet paper because a lot of stuff piles up at home, and finally we stopped at Pet Mart so she could get a dog bed, training treats, and poodle puddle pads because it’s too cold for the dog to go out and pee and besides she’s too small to get up the steps or since she has lived in a kennel all her two year life before Mom got her, steps are not part of her working vocabulary. It was a great trip!
No, seriously, it was a great trip. Every moment I spend with my 98 year-old mother is precious.
Posted under current events
This post was written by ed on February 20, 2009
I’ve just spent over a week struggling to fix an error in a new Revolution Wordpress website I’m creating, and this morning thanks to a HTML code master, Brian, the error has been corrected. It looks like the internet age has divided us into three categories, (1) those who read what’s on the internet, (2) those who create something to be read on the internet, (3) and, at the top of the pyramid, those who create the tools for the creators. Read More…
Posted under current events
This post was written by ed on February 19, 2009
I just got a couple of photographs from Blackstone in the 50s when parades were great and floats looked like the Rose Bowl Parade light. But on second look, I noticed that the parade was white. Read More…
Posted under current events
This post was written by ed on February 13, 2009
Charlie Mouser’s daughter called yesterday and said her father died Tuesday. He had told me from the hospital that he was given six months to live and I thought there would be time for another one of our sessions where I took my latest idea to him for his expert input. My offering would, of course, be torn to bits and then reconstructed with more sanity and a slim hope of success. I always called Charlie my marketing guru. He was driven to expand businesses and business hopefuls to see beyond the boundaries of their assumed perfect plan. Read More…
Posted under The Tao is, current events
This post was written by ed on February 13, 2009
My mind knew what the noise was without even thinking. I was meditating at 5 a.m. and our cat Puja was yowling in the hall with her mouth closed so what came out was an angry, frustrated cry of the wild. Puja had a mouse and something was blocking the natural flow of the game of life. Read More…
Posted under current events
This post was written by ed on January 30, 2009
Yesterday evening my sister secretly flew up from Florida to surprise her mother on her 98th birthday. The pictures tell the story. Read More…
Posted under current events
This post was written by ed on January 23, 2009
Because she’s 98 and not as limber as she once was my mother didn’t want another poodle puppy to replace her little Tiffy that died maybe a month ago. With Tiffy gone her house was a quiet as a funeral home. We thought an older trained dog would be better. But toy poodles are hard to find, we discovered. After a few weeks of searching we found a 4 year-old toy poodle in Warsaw, Va, with a French poodle breeder, Dupuy Poodles, who lived so far out in the countryside that even my GPS got worried. If you want to have some fun, try getting directions to Hussey Creek Road from a woman with french accent so strong that it took five minutes just to understand that Creek was not Quake. Don’t ask how long it took for Hussey.
This little dog, smaller toy than Tiffy, was already housebroken so there would be no poodle puddles for Mom to clean up. But this was the best of both worlds because the little toy looked and felt like a puppy—a perpetual puppy without the puppy mess. Read More…
Posted under current events
This post was written by ed on January 10, 2009
In our modern western world as Emerson said, “Things are in the saddle and ride mankind.” Reading the Tao Te Ching, usually in the bathroom, I was again reminded of this ancient teaching that so, so understands space and its importance. But space is not just an absence of objects, like houses bulldozed off a field to leave an empty space. Space, and perhaps the most important space of all, can occur in the mind. Take my wife, for instance. Read More…
Posted under current events
This post was written by ed on January 7, 2009
This morning the first Rainbow Arriving workshop was held, but it was more of a work session as a small group of us were looking to see if we could actually make a rainbow appear. And some did, I think, at least for me. You can’t know if others see a rainbow. You can only know if you see one. A rainbow occurs in a space where the cloud of thinking opens and allows insight to break into the mind like a beam of sunlight. This morning we talked about how one can use their marriage to awaken from the sleep of time and repeating their days like Ground Hog Day. (the movie)
The first Rainbow Arriving Workshop for Marriage Renewal will be held Valentine’s Day at the Grey Swan Inn in Blackstone, and since the Blackstone Yoga Center is across the street the five couples can come here for the sessions. Hopefully, the weekend will be a mini-retreat without the expense of a resort and high-end programs.
The intention for the weekend is not to teach the couples what to do or give them therapy. This is not a weekend to fix anything. Trying to fix our marriages is part of the problem because we begin with the perception and belief that the marriage is a problem. A Rainbow Workshop is not to focus on the problem, but to shift attention to the way we experience the problem.
This is a no-fault workshop and couples are encouraged to leave their problems at home or at the door and practice noticing the old, the borrowed, and the blue in their marriage. Remember, at the beginning the bride wears these three things, plus something new. When we notice without incrimination what is old (repetitive behaviors), something borrowed (beliefs and behaviors we borrowed from parents and culture), and something blue (the emotions that come bagged with the other two), we discover that the actual noticing is the something new.
Something new is not a new thing because oncee something is a thing, or even a thought, it is no longer new. Only the seeing is new. The seeing is the knowing and it is total. Seeing is like suddenly waking up from dreaming. One sees that you are asleep and that seeing is awake. And when you see conditioned behavior, it is the unconditioned that is doing the seeing, and then, only then can something new happen in relationship. The seeing is the Rainbow Arriving.
Posted under current events
This post was written by ed on January 6, 2009
