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Kindness and Compassion

I am a contemplative person. I have always been a writer. I write poetry, trashy novels, letters, short stories, and recipes. I have a professional blog but have never moved into a personal space with one.

I have a desire to share my opinions and philosophies and love to receive other opinions.

I will ask that when responding you remember there is a human being behind every word. Please do not be rude or cruel when responding to anyone’s post. I will moderate them and take down those deemed offensives. Feel free to share opposite opinions, but please be considerate.

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Watered Down Love

I have been a witness all of my life. It kept me safe. Witnessing great and small, learning from interactions, or the lack thereof, doing my best to separate truth from fiction and all of the grays in between. There isn’t much I can say with certainty about anything. Except that we, you and I,…
Relationship

Re – Implies that this is something to revert back to. Re quite literally means, again. Lation is derived from the Latin word Latus or ferre, which means to carry on, the act of bringing or proposing. Ship, in the Germanic sense, implies a pairing of two characters. It can speak to the condition, office…
Control is the Illusion

Control is the Illusion Exploring the concept of self often results in significant frustration. It is not easy being me, sometimes for everyone, sometimes just for me. I find that I have a profound need to control everything at times. Understanding intellectually that I have zero chance of influencing anything beyond my response doesn’t always…
Contentment

Just now, as I think about the simplicity of contentment, I wonder at the angst and suffering I and we, and they and you, wantonly accept and manage because we are so clouded by everything, literally everything, that never mattered anyway. The money, the cars, the shiny job, and sparkly things that somehow misconstrue and…
Unconditional L…

The concept of unconditional anything kind of blows my socks off. It’s an unrealistic ideology. Expectations are premeditated resentments. How often these words have been in the forefront of my mind. Yet I hardly ever sit with expectations I have on life, love, friendship, and more profoundly, self, long enough to realize the pedestalled ideal…
Ahimsa

As a practitioner of the principle of ahimsa, albeit a poor practitioner, I have had to acknowledge the hypocrisy in my life as I move closer to embracing certain qualities. By definition, Ahimsa relates to non-harmfulness. Meaning that as a practitioner I do not wish harm to any living creature or even to any lifeless object.…