Redemption. . . .

. . .its the only song I am hearing now.


I am blessed beyond any measure with a small pool of human beings, family and friends, that have stood with me through all sorts of drama, climbing, falling, and stupidity.

And when I really sit and look honestly at that, my entire being radiates with a kind of joy that is only experienced with genuine gratitude.

That is not the gratitude of achievement. Because the kind of gratitude I am talking about is one of those things my ego can never know. It requires no defense, and it needs no explanation.

And when I forget it I am closed off, and when I remember it I am open. Only one of those states would I call awake, and you can guess which one is better for everybody involved, myself included.

And here is the thing, it can only ever be experienced NOW.

If I attempt to plan, second guess, will into being, or in any way shape or form manipulate. . . .then it leaves me.

Or more properly stated, I leave it.

But try explaining that to ambition.

"If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about mans illusion that he was acting according to his own free will."
-Albert Einstein

On that note, I am headed to Alabama. See you on the other side.

Love Now,
There is no other time.

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