It's snowing a bit in Ravensdale WA

I thought you guys got something like 3 rainy days a week there. Maybe I was wrong.

I also thought you didn't have too many sunny days, hence the often high suicide rate. Maybe that's urban myth.


From where I am to Da Nang is about 400 miles, to Ho Chi Minh/Saigon it's about 750 miles.

Everyone wants to live in heaven...
Nobody wants to die!

There is more to this weather thing
than just looking at the sky!
We all get wet
Then sun ourselves to dry.

Maybe we all get a Thailand
By and by.":O}

Allow your self to heal my brother.
We all lost because that's when war happens, when we have lost.

None of us from that generation can forget and none more so than you who bore the burden of our national ambition.
Stop trying to forget the unforgeable and take up something new.

"an easy way to deal with wild force is to forestall it."

The image of a head board being attached to a young bull, BEFORE the horns begin to grow out and become dangerous.
You've been down this road ten thousand times Expending your energy on what you know is a dead end.
So this time look down that road before you let habit take you down it...yes?

"As long as we wrestle with out faults, they remain victorious.
The best way to deal with our faults is "energetic progress in the good."

Good and better things await you George, you just need to find the courage to let what was and will have always been.... be, and take up the new.
This Universe re-creates itself microsecond by microsecond. Which means it re-creates YOU and ME microsecond by microsecond.

All we need do is wait for the right moment to act, if we find it the entire universe will support our efforts...
Which is why grace is so often found in the quite moment, before the change takes place and in the quite moment after the change establishes itself.

Sit back and enjoy a quite one.":O}

"That which you are seeking, is seeking you."

Oddly enough, I've been having some nightmares from my Army days recently. About 2 weeks of them, actually. Rather disquieting, and I'm starting to get a bit cranky from lack of sleep.

This does not surprising me! We, our nation and our world are in the gravest danger.
Dictators are establishing themselves and clapping down on descent every where we look!

Pray for this world my brothers, pray for a change in the hearts of men. Pray for purity of heart that we might find our way out and find our way in.

None of this is happing by chance. This is the logical out come of behavior long ago identified as evil.
They (evil men) are on the move and conflict is beginning to seem inevitable.
At this point (in my view) all we can do is wait. until a way out reveals itself to us.


"I pity the poor immigrant who wishes he would have strayed home
who uses all his power to do evil and in the end is left so alone.
I pity the poor immigrant when his gladness comes to pass."
From Bob Dylan

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So sorry! I've had my problems with sleep in the past. I really didn't find a remedy.
So let's go with "this to shall pass."
and await it's passing in it's own time.

What else can we do?

All our remedies lie within us. But I'll not lie to you, we are often opposed from within as well.
Then fight without quarter is necessary if the good is to prevail. We determiner the victory.

"When you find yourself in darkness, cling to what you remember of the light."
Evil exists only in the world of man. So try to get out a bit in nature.
For most of existence for most of the time...Life is good!
Animals don't live in fear. The live in the now with the sages.

Yet Confucius said of happiness:

"Had I been a good man I would have been happy most all of my life. As things are I have only seldom been happy."
Alas, I to have seldom been happy. My world is dying how then should I be happy?

I try to be present. Available to the now. I try to be honest. Beyond that it's all day by day and I have learned not to measure my progress by weather I am happy. But rather upon the influences I create.

It use to drive me crazy to receive hexagram 58, "The Joyous." to keep in the fore ground .How do you make yourself joyous?
Then one day about a month ago the obscuration passed and I realized that as much as I was being told to be joyous , I was also being told how to be joyous.

Strength and clarity within expressing itself in gentleness without.
I know what your thinking, I thought it as well.
"I have no strength!!"

Then it came to me. If I wanted to have strength I need only keep trying and just as muscle responds to exercise, the Will responds to effort. You must try. The world may judge you, but God never will if you just keep trying.

Hard to hear when your downhearted I know!!

Just remember this to will pass and don't stop trying to remain in the now where all our remedies lay.
The now where we can will the good.
If your willing the good you are in the now.


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