Simplify

Just sitting still, apparently that is a quintessential expression of simplification, according to the man teaching the meditation course I am in. Sounds true to me, who can argue with simple truth.

Lately, since I have become self-unemployed, I have been on the coffee/tea house tour of Philadelphia, fortunately it has been with various tour mates (the many loved ones I did not have the time to luxuriate with while employed, working a job has a way of getting in the middle of that). In this lifetime, I have taken it upon myself as my life work to simply BE happy and inspire BEING happy in others, over the course of many years I have worked many jobs and tried on many different career paths because it seemed like the "right" thing to do. In cultivating the soil for growing "happy" I have become keenly aware of when various expressions of "happy" turn from life work into a job - in the best cases, I am able to accept graciously that my work was done here people and move on into new expressions that both serve myself and others, our collective highest good.

I have taken leaps into the great unknown more than once in my life only to find myself seconds later flailing and desperate for a life preserver, never quite surrendering fully to fall (which happens to be my biggest fear - falling from great height). Fortunately, various practices in my life, sitting being one of the top 5, have given me access to pausing in the midst of flailing to ask myself "why flail, is this truly necessary?" Just that moment of pause, the break in my panic "MUST GRAB ON TO SOMETHING!!!" opens this window for seeing things clearly (let's call it clear seeing!). This clear seeing I am finding is simple, direct and profoundly undeniable, it is becoming a sound guide on my tour de life.

Why not start here, now...

Over the course of the past however many years I have found so many ways to dig a little deeper into the fiber of this thing called life...writing is one of them. When I was thinking about this blog idea earlier, of course I was charged (and likely highly caffeinated). As the idea churned the exasperated aspect of my mind was just beside itself with yet another thing to commit to for my fucking spiritual development "aren't we DOING enough...isn't that the idea sugar? simplify?!". Well yes, it is and I suppose I will only use this as for as long as it is simple.

Why write? It just works. Why write here? Why not a private journal? Well, frankly it just isn't as entertaining! When there is an audience, even a potential one, even just my mother it makes it way more fun and liberating to express my daily encounters with humor, humility and humanity. And so this public journey begin (and let's be honest...if someone finds me even equally as entertaining as I find myself, maybe one day they too will make a movie out of my nonsense journey through life, god I hope the job goes to Parker Posey.)

So for now, let's "do" just that...keep it simple.