Wayfarer64

This is telling me April 5th- Yes? http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index....&country=42

As a grumpy old cormudgin, I figure I can deal with whatever is slung my way...I hope my will to be honest supercededs my will to be prudent...

Please check out Pauls' kind words... http://www.thegoldenlantern.com/editor/archive8.htm

Welcome - I hope you find some good friends here!

The blue bird that sings Sweetens ears with thrilling trills Mating on the fly

I thought being mindful was the whole point!

It sure seems alive to me! Check out this iste!- http://www.leaveitwild.org/

I like the ignore function. It grants options as to who I am subjected to, when I am logged in... & also allows for me to cool-off without being subjected to those who annoy me - as I hope those whom I annoy may ignore me... It works!

Greetings to ya - keep up the good fight!-Pat

Thank you for that word-picture.- I bid you welcome and hope to share our journies here-Pat

I wish you well- I only know that a few good friends have used a drug -"Tedrol" -don't know spelling- and that it caused them a lot of bad times - It disaffects the nervous system to make people very cranky and the withdrawal is painful.

This thread makes me think I should take a look at my old threads and see what I was thinking over the past few years - thanks!

Then meets Waterloo Now meets the sparkling sunshine Forever meets you

That "stuck in the past syndrome" is scattered around the world in many different systems. That the Muslems seem to be agressive in their attitudes & inforcing proscribed behaviors is worrisome to many. But as we each struggle towards enlightenment, so do whole peoples....We can only try to open their minds while we defend our own ways. Many here seem to believe they are on a path towards enlightenment. It may be prudent for us each to look within and see if our own systems are intrusive to others' - Tolerance is not always the best approach to troubling ideas, but it is usually a good place to start from. I do not see this coming from many muslems... That being said - I have met a few wonderful Ba'hais- Seals & Crofts were two pretty famous musicians I met who were Ba'hai And A few of my closest friends here in central NJ are Muslem from Egypt and very open minded fellas... Generalized catagorizing fails us all... EDIT_ here is a thought I borrowed- It is, perhaps, the Greek input into Christianity which is responsible for that (which) I believe worthy of emphasis when addressing the Western confrontation with Islam: that of irony. There is already a developing streak of irony in the Hebrew Bible, one that is amplified by the Talmud. But there is a new kind of irony in Jesus' judgments and parables, one which looks at the spectacle of human folly and wryly shows us how to live with it. A telling example of this is Jesus' verdict in the case of the woman taken in adultery. "Let he who is without fault," he says, "cast the first stone." In other words, "Come off it. Haven't you wanted to do what she did, and already done it in your hearts?" . . . . This irony is shared by the great Sufi poets, especially Rumi and Hafiz, but it seems to be largely unknown in the schools of Islam that shape the souls of the Islamists. Theirs is a religion which refuses to see itself from the outside, and which cannot bear to be criticized, still less to be laughed at -- something we have abundantly witnessed in recent times.

Yet, the beat goes on... http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9...;show_article=1

It seems we are back letting go of attachments!- It may be that you can let go of yr angst and thus your gout?

I regret to say I've no such miles -(only milage)...But my thoughts are with your efforts!

Thank you Mak Tin Si. the hot/cold aspect puts an interesting angle onto my rememberances. Oblique references that become direct. My usual peevish annoyance with you is mollified ! This scares me more than ghosts!

As I recently added to another thread here- the inter-action has almost always been with people I knew/know well (and some less well but having ties through other people I am very close to). It usually leaves me very melancholy, maybe "drained" is a better discription...It is joyful to feel close but it does not last in my minds' eye ... so -it is also a bit like trying to get -if not actually getting - used to the spiritual connections. They seem sort of "strained" or tenuous sometimes...Other times almost overwhelming, or it just settles into a feeling of connectedness that is vast in its' network...But I remain some how unable to be part of that realm - (I guess because I'm alive!?) The realm of spirit seems to adhere to what is alive. Magnetic in its simple attraction. One more thing in the Tao's balancing act...creating interactions...

Drama tomorrow Darmha socks my karma Mamamia, bum!

It wasn't today, but I need to refresh the idea, every so often... so it may yet be tomorrow...When I realize(d)... I am once again a spirit having a human experience. This is a great chance to experience life on a multitude of interesting levels. I have a choice where-in I may devote real effort into strengthening my spirit through this lifes' activities... Not just be an intellect enjoying a body, but a conscious being that is, what? Perhaps an entity of pure potential... as we all are...in spirit... always open and learning about existance...

Michael- thank you- It sounds like good training for what I would call the "floating" punch - one that does not move far but packs a momentous wallop - instant vilocity as it were. It also seems akin to what the other conversation here is alluding to - Yes? Projecting the energy, or is it actually still mass? - Is that the "alchemy" - to transfer ones' mass into energy ? Projecting a punch mentally before/while one is on the move having won the fight before it begins?

and now a nice Hawaiian punch---glug glug

granted - but they are all for the betterment of others so you just fade away! I wish I could sell more of my book of Wayfarer Sonnets to you bums!

Welcome!- I lived in St. Albans back in the early '70s... and traveled quite a bit in the British Isles into the '90s - I felt at home there and hope you do so here!