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๐Ÿ”ญ willing to ๐Ÿ”ฎ

Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2023 09:31:30 AM

explore new directions and see what may come of it, is quiet a topic to wrap my wind around this morning, as i post this quickie. i made a decision this morning to sleep a bit later than usual and then to go for a walk. that mile and a half felt good and my leg is feeling as if it will be more than ready to start training for my ascent to 19,000+ feet above sea level and a continent far, far away. as me and the dawg were walking i had to see what i could make optional this morning and what i “needed” to get done. stopping for coffee on my way to my home group was what i cut, so i could pound this out.
looking at the new directions i may be able to explore today, i have to speak this afternoon at convention and i am a bit nervous. it has been a very long minute since i spoke in front of a group that was not my home group and the last time i spoke at convention, i was pretty terrible. back then it was all about prepping to be a circuit speaker and i saw that as the start of that career. these days, i am quite sure that being a circuit speaker is not for me and i can just be myself and share just my experience, strength and hope and see where it goes. the new direction here? letting go of who i think i am and my need to have others approve of me. how well will that work? well it is time to post this little bit of mind-dumpery and find out.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

2) Shall we then dispense with correction? The (method of) correction
shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn
become evil. The delusion of the people (on this point) has indeed
subsisted for a long time.