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Every so often I start a new blog like this one.
For some reason I just stopped posting to my previous blog, As It Is.
It happens and then it doesn’t. I’ve long given up wondering why some things happen while other things don’t.
We get what we get when we get it.
To celebrate his blog’s 30th birthday I’ve started following Dave Winer’s Scripting News again, as well as his new Wordpress/ Fediverse ‘node’ Daveverse.
He’s very excited about having a blog that is automattically (sic) part of the Fediverse via ActivityPub.
He’s working on a web writing tool called WordLand that is hooked up to Wordpress.
Dave doesn’t think Automattic knows what they have in giving every Wordpress blog the ability to be its own Fediverse account. I think they know exactly what they’re doing.
Currently re-watching Gomorrah (La Serie) for the umpteenth time. It’s one of the few series that bears repeated viewing, alongside The Wire and Succession.
Had to put it on again having recently returned from Naples roughly 30 years since my last visit. A truly incredible city. Imagine a fifteen hundred year old New York.
This is Toast. She’s 15 years old. Her current features include arthritis, thyroid problems, deafness and a 50 metre walking range.
She’s my only son’s furry sister and when she goes will leave us all bereft.
Funny things pets.
I’ve no idea what I’m going to be posting here and that’s fine.
Here’s a snap of the aurora my wife took last night.
Hello world 👋
You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.
Shunryu Suzuki
In the end one experiences only oneself.
David Shields
Practice is something before we realise it is nothing and we are already home and went nowhere.
We find that all along, we had what we needed from the beginning and that in the end we have returned to its essence, an essence we could not understand until we had undertaken the journey.
David Whyte
Everything worthwhile and valuable in life are by-products of other processes, not ends in themselves which can be directly pursued, attained, gained or achieved. Happiness, love, gratitude, compassion, wholeness, so-called awakening/ enlightenment – all simply arise if causes and conditions allow. The degree to which we think we can control those factors is greatly overstated.
For a time, words may encourage and inspire, but if you cling too long to a teaching, any teaching, it will blind you to your own life, your own being, your own truth.
Robert Saltzman
That which seems like a false step is just the next step.
Agnes Martin
To be yourself is to be nobody to yourself.
Shiv Sengupta
If you are open and ready to receive then everything that happens is needed.
There is no greater teaching than the present moment.
It’s all an enormous process…
No suffering is unnecessary…
All of it is only enlightening, this is life.Agnes Martin.
The mistakes have to be made.
We have to experience the inseparability of the delusion and enlightenment, not try to eliminate one and stay always attached to the other.
Barry Magid