malibumark

It's a cold Autumn night, but grateful to be safe and warm with my copilot inside.

it's interesting how I struggle with the servicesnot because the service changes but becauseI change and each day I am like a new personchallenged to find the dogma and routine again.it has gotten...

I started the morning in a mood which started when I got a text at 3am. There was a back and forth and I then rested a little bit and started the day. I conducted services and had the morning meal....

I don't know if the world had changed or just the way I feel about it. My appetite is huge but it's not at odds with my survival set, which perhaps unfortunately was the way it once was. Keep hungry....

starting the day here. it's a cold blustery fall morning.sunny and only a few clouds slipping along in the sky.I went and bought a coffee and drank itat my leisure in the coffee shop. At 10am I'll...

I am so grateful for my life.It seems I want so many things separately from where I am right now,but I recognize that what I have chosen, the monastery, is a fulcrum of love.Ilness or no illness....

As I try to make sense of my day, I also try to make sense of my life, the context of small things and then the wide scope comes to mind. One serves the other sometimes to help me with reminders that...

....back to my reality.I have Blue to take care of - I am serving at altar tonight and I will say prayers for a friend in need.I am just kind of realizing what takes me back to the sense of my life...

Going to extremes with food drink or whatever tends not to be good for my biology, that includes journaling, but keeping in mind to journal can help engender an awareness of the good things in my...

negative family memories can flashback in our minds for all of us.I am starting to put those memories back on the bookshelf asif it were a book (look at it, dust it off and put it back.)i am also...

after a lot of spinning and trying to keep up with observations of my heart and head - trying to keep up with the two - to make sense of things - I finally gave up today and realized I can't live in...