You and I

You and I are responsible for organizing ourselves to gather and share information that is useful and truthful for us and ours.

You and I are the source of our clean and safe environment. It is our responsibility to organize how we shall keep our surroundings clean and safe.

You and I are the source of competent oversight. It is our responsibility to see that we are proceeding in the way we have decided.

You and I cannot do it all; we must stay organized to cooperate with others.

I

I am pretty big on affirmations. Most affirmations that I write, I begin with the word "I."


There may be a couple of people who have thought me wise. Others have called me in some ways thoughtful. Then there have been a few who have thought that I know myself pretty well.


Well, the reality seems to be that I don't know what "I" is.

Me, My Life, and I

Wouldn't it take a thousand lifetimes to tell fully the life of one woman or one man?
The story of a man might be: he was born, he lived, he died.
What happened while he lived? All of it; everything.
In this second, what are you doing? What's happening within you? What's happening around you? What are you feeling? A lot, right?


I am much like every man, much like you.
One has asked me to tell about myself. What would he have me say? Whatever I say I must condense, symbolize, imply.
With what criteria would I choose an example for him? If he were truly interested wouldn't he dialogue with me so long as that interest persisted?


I shall try an honest shorthand description of my life and I:
~ I look and listen.
~ I explore.
~ I read.
~ I practice.
~ I share, experience, strength, and hope.
~ I have discovered, happenings, ways, means, functionings, structures, orders, doings.
~ I have developed skill.
~ I have loved more than I have hated.
~ I am mostly happy and grateful.


There, you have a telling of my life.