In the beginning...

One of my favorite places to spend my time is in and around the woods. As of late I've been hiking a considerable amount and truth be told, sometimes I rather enjoy just finding a quiet spot to sit and just watch my thoughts drift by. If you've read any of my earliest posts you may possibly find this a bit redundant. In any case, one of my goals while sitting quietly in the woods was to stay until I learned (or remembered) something. It was a pretty passive situation in that I wasn't forcing anything. Just trying to be present for whatever was there. I just looked listened and let it happen. Invariably, I would see something, or notice something, or something would happen that would cause a light bulb to go off. OK, not always a big light bulb, but at least a candles worth. Maybe some kind of a recollection or a knowing from eons past. Usually, something so basic that you would think it was coded in our DNA but not to worry because if you had "eyes to see", you'd be hard pressed to miss it.

So in the beginning… you know back before Stephen Colbert, before David Letterman, before Al Gore's Internet, before TV, before radio, before books, before tablets (the stone kind not the Samsung) somebody was figuring things out for the first time and probably there were many somebodies all over the planet since news didn't travel that fast. I'm thinking those somebodies learned pretty much everything they needed to know by observing others and nature and while it's pretty easy at this point for you to say "no kidding", the reality is that just like common sense isn't common practice, we all "know" about the basics. But we don't very often practice them. So, I think that that will be the underlying message or carrier wave of my writing here. My mission here will focus on identifying and teasing out those little bits of basic knowledge from daily life and sharing them with you all in the hope that somewhere along the way it makes a difference in the quality of your life and or relationships. It has become obvious that many gurus, sages, experts, religious, etc. deliver similar teachings albeit with different words. I can only assume that they draw their wisdom from the same pool. I think that we all have access to that pool. We don't need to be 90 years old to understand it and maybe the best part is that we don't need to go on a very long hike to find it. In fact, we don't really need a hike at all. We can pretty much sit down anywhere and look at almost any scene and eventually those little lessons are going to come through.
I hope you give it a try sometime and feel free enough to share you thoughts.