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What’s in Your Car? Looking, Examining, Interpreting and Understanding a Universe of Elements AKA Our World

How we look at our world is as various as we are from one individual to another. I recently watched a documentary about what’s in your car – what elements are within its materials – that described that each “thing” that the earth contains within or on it, has existed always in our universe – that there is the continual process of the ongoing reconfiguration of elements, that have always been – somehow, or daily life consists of what our DNA configures us to do, day in and day out, multiple times from sunrise to sunrise in a cyclical fashion.

We progress by discovering more of these elements and by becoming more sophisticated in our manipulation and configurations of them through time.

We know this as technology development, a named overarching set of activities towards this end. It represents many intents, mainly making order out of chaos in a perception world that is becoming increasingly described in a virtual way. We call this “modeling” or virtual worlds.

Communication has always been, and follows a similar progression path to that of the elements. More expressive and virtual, communication enables beings to cooperate, and sustain by lending understanding of essential knowledge based on experience or for more critical situations, help in filling gaps of understanding of diagnosis and of interpretations that not all beings can understand.

Values are placed on elements and expressions as well as the more clever manipulations and configurations of them. What we describe as “work” is treated as a multi-level activity hierarchy that consolidates behaviors and actions into groups, types, and levels of sophistication. Heady stuff.

Pleasure or pain, celebrating the entry or lamenting the losses of certain forms and beings are a part of this period that we experience described universally as “life” by various words that translate to that same meaning.

However, ironically, we are clueless to the actual “meaning of life”. For addressing this, some utilize “science” which is a more “technical” view and some utilize “faith” and the various “belief systems” to bring themselves closer to an understanding of this “meaning of life”. We are in many ways, in many faith groups, seeking to understand the sunrise and sunset of our lives, and what it all means in the context of our universe.

In the meantime, there is what exists here – and love is a huge part of it. The heartbreaking aspects of hurt and anguish in our lives are assuaged by love and its variable nature. We know that love exists, as we feel it – just as we are able to feel God and the presence of the envelope that holds us here. Our higher consciousness has been attained by meditation and prayer, which gives us insight into the existence of this state.

I had these thoughts on an airplane, recently, as I often do. Might be the air quality or the altitude – whatever, these flowed into my mind… I had to capture them. That program that I watched was quite good.

It got me to thinking…

August 4, 2015
something to look forward to doing, no matter what. seek happy.

don’t you feel better when you have something that you can look forward to doing? not dread. but something that is cheery and fun? there is a lot of discussion around, about happiness. is happiness some state that once you’re there, you’re there? is it episodic and fleeting? is it a feeling or a state?

it is my belief that happiness is not a state, but is a feeling and is a very complex one, at that. if you focus on the positive and decline the negative (as much as possible) – you may likely have more “happiness” than others who do not use this technique. this is my belief.

this can be a challenge if the stress-monsters are active, or you are surrounded by negativity or people who might constantly chatter about some event or other – bitching, moaning, wailing, sniveling… ahhh – there it goes so easily it can happen!

i recently went through a “dodged a bullet” or “cheated death, once again!” situations. when the surgeon gave me the report, i squealed and did a “high five” with her – as it had been weeks of uncertainty and anxiety that began with a routine doctor’s visit, then tests, then a referral to another doctor (this one), and surgery, and more tests, and finally the report. my mind went through so many gyrations that i know others go through – in fact, i said to one of my doctors, after she concluded a test to send off to the lab, “now we enter the “anxiety phase” of the process”. she laughed.

more data needed to make a decision was the line of reasoning. but this does not prevent those conversations with God and the dredging up of thoughts of all types that take you in places you should likely not go. right. but you do. “get your hands off that keyboard!” “do NOT search the internet!!” “bad! bad!”

it takes working with yourself to not slip into negativity with the constant battering of media that pumps it out to make us a more anxious society – in fact, a more anxious civilization…

but being anxious makes you unhappy. it makes everyone unhappy around you. remember that movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? well, that didn’t work, now, did it? what’s the answer? hide. yes, that’s right. shut off all input from negative sources! don’t read newspapers. turn off the television! listen to calm music. it makes sense. you can tell them NO by doing this! try it for twenty-four hours – i guarantee you will be a calmer person!

in the meantime, feel free to gaze upon these images – to help yourself calm down. imagine yourself there… now… enjoy!

July 7, 2015
decisions, challenges, keeping focus and still worrying, after all these years

personally, i haven’t changed a bit…

all these years. yep. it is a fact, day by day, we never know what comes around the corner.   finding eggs, after hunting for them all over the place… an early adopter. pastel colored eggs were and still are attractive.   not sure why that is. early exposure.

in my life, if I think of it at a certain level of abstraction, there have been puzzles to solve. always.

I can also remember bits and pieces of early childhood vividly. sometimes the smells. sometimes just the scenes. sometimes the voices of my grandmother and mother, talking together, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes, or with my godmothers, always doing some sort of project.

it was an interesting early life, always something going on – activity – not much sitting around – mostly, inventive, clever, fun. there was always fun factor. enjoyment was king. maybe since it was just a few years after the war ended, they recognized the value of enjoyment and fun factor.

I grew up around a lot of adults, and kids, sometimes, but mostly, it was adult-oriented – and sometimes alone – left to play by myself, or supposedly napping – sometimes I did nap, but mostly not.

A little uncertain of whoever it was taking the picture. Dad was, too?

I kind of like puzzles. Hard to solve ones, but satisfying if I do.  The life challenges, however, can begin to wear you down – you need a re-charge and once in awhile – you get it, that, sometimes a new challenge is actually energizing, not draining. Change of scenery.

Just when you are greatly comforted, that’s when something happens. Almost if comfortable is a warning sign. This is the anthem of the anxious. Perhaps, I am a bit anxious, but calmly so, if that makes any sense. To those of you out there who share this, it will make sense.

but worrying is genetic, I’ve decided. still haven’t been able to Zen around it… guess I got that from my Dad, he was chief of the worriers – did it for all of us – but, I guess, I take his place in that.  Must surround myself with Zen people. Chill. That’s it. But not easy.

May 21, 2015