Journal

     I have been really working on my life since the last journal entry.  Much has been happening.  For 301 people, it will seem like a blinding flash of the obvious.  For others, it will seem like outright nonsense.  It is, however, only my perceptions, my truth, and my writing.  Get used to it, or don't bother to read.

     My stance on the spurious concept of "triggering" remains the same.  I won't say much on the boards about it any more, because I am tired of the hairpulls that always result when such a true, but polarizing opinion is expressed.

     Last night, I traveled up into the foothills of the mountains to participate in an event sponsored by men who wear the black shirt.  We were gathered to initiate 35 new men into our fellowship.  It was at just such an initiation three years ago that I became a humble wearer of the black shirt.  And I submitted my selves to a way of living as a man that I once thought was closed to me.

     We are men who are for the sustainable way of life.  We rever the mother earth, and the father sky.  Some of us, such as myselves, follow the Way.  Others follow other ways.  All of us are healers.  WE wish to live lightly upon the mother home, beneath the father sky.  WE wish to be at peace with all living things.  WE are peaceful warriors; many of whom have tasted of the horror that is human warfare; have faced and forgiven the shadow of ourselves that tapped wrath in order to wage war in the fatal and traditional way of the universal soldier.

     WE have had to face the fact of our manhood, and accept it;

we are not part of the problem any more.  WE are growing in numbers, and we know what we are about.  Our strength is made perfect in weakness.  All good things derive from the Great Love which created our mother, our father, and ourselves.  End of Rant!

     Dee and I have had a wonderful autumn; we had our seventh "anniversarymoon" at the place on earth we love the most.  We will return, Godwilling, to the same venue for Christmas this year.  Our respective families will continue to put the fun back in dysfunction, but they will be doing it, if they do, without Dee and me this year.

     Birthday # sixty one in 12 days, and I am loving the seventhdecade!  May actually have to go learn to ballroom dance!  For really!!!  Re-tirement in a little more that one year is now clearly in view; which is wonderful in contemplation.  Life happens one moment at a time.  Forget before, Wait for after, and live the daylights out of right now!!!!!!!   And for the love of heaven, do not ever forget to be kind!!!!!!!!   Bob, your friendly 301 DS Seminar member!!!

IT IS BLACK SHIRT THURSDAY ONCE AGAIN.  I HAVE LEARNED NOT TO TAKE THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF THE "TRIGGER SCHMIGGERS" PERSONALLY.  SOME MAY THINK THEY UPSET ME.  THAT WOULD BE AN INCORRECT ASSUMPTION.  THEY ARE THE "LOYAL OPPOSITION", WITHOUT WHOM I WOULD SOON BECOME A RATHER DULL TOOL.  IF I HAVE NO OPPOSITION, WHAT WILL I SHARPEN MYSELF AGAINST?  SO TO ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME, YOU GET FIRST PRIORITY.  COME, LET US REASON TOGETHER, BUT BRING YOUR GOOD BEHAVIOR AND BEST MANNERS, BECAUSE I WILL BE DOING THE SAME.  AND KNOW THAT WHATEVER YOU BRING TO ME WILL BE MET WITH JOY.  I AM TOO OLD FOR THE ILL EFFECTS THAT BAD TEMPER AND HATRED HAVE ON MY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SELVES.  TO ALL MY FRIENDS, HUGE HUGGZ ALWAYS.  TO THE FRIENDS I HAVE NOT MADE YET, HUGE HUGGZ.

TO EVERYONE IN GENERAL, HUGE HUGGZ,AND A STRONG HOPE THAT YOU ARE HERE TO RECOVER.  IF YOU ARE NOT RECOVERING, WHAT IN THE MULTIVERSES ARE YOU DOING HERE?

THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

lOVE AND BE A BLESSING TODAY

     I have been blessed with the opportunity to listen and talk with a couple of friends who came to me at sixes and sevens.  I listened to what came from my mouth, and heard things I needed to hear myself.  Bless all of you for sharing the hard things as well as the bright and wonderful things.  It reminds me that we are all in this together, and there is only one soul inside one skin.  Sometimes the soul fragments, and then we have the very toughest of times remaining viable in the "game". 

     However, I have learned huge lessons from the "mpd", or "alter people" I have met and tried to befriend here.  All of us could fragment at any time.  Pain and stress of soul can do this to us.  I do not know how "real" it is.  I do not even care.  I reach back, up, down, and out to any hurting hand that reaches to me.  I live involved.  That is the secret.  BE INVOLVED.

Love and Joy to you all!