History

The best part of history, for me, is the story. Much of histories value lies in how closely it approaches reality. A good story which is true is hard to beat. I would love a history that contained no intention to deceive.

History is the presentation of:
~ knowledge or a source of knowledge,
~ an interpretation,
~ a scholarly synthesis of events,
~ what we value from the past (the taste of this mornings toothpaste?)
~ that which is worth remembering,
~ knowledge obtained by inquiry,
~ an account of one's experience,
~ an account of actual events,
~ the study of a human past,
~ a pointing of the way,
~ knowledge brought to the present,
~ systematically related phenomena,
and stuff like vision, wit, and order.

There may be a history for each category of human experience: love, music, martial arts, smut, science, racing, family, you, war, politics, kings, natural events, blood lines, religion, philosophy, magic, history and everything else.

As each of us preserves and interprets happenings, each of us is a historian. Some historians have been judged to be better than others. Some pass on greater power to us. Some try to pass on attractive lies. Many are learned men or women of fine vision from whom we may learn truly.

I have enjoyed and benefited from well told stories of real events told by worthy persons with deep respect for rules of evidence. There are strange histories that may be a sort of travelogue of happenings and experiences out of time which may have their own value. There are chronologies, tiny and grand, which give order to the doings of man. I like best the well told story told honestly by an honest fellow.

The doing of history includes using a variety of methods of research, analysis, and interpretation. A historian may examine and analyze a sequence of events and present his interpretation to you. He searches the happenings and chronologies for causes and effects and tells one what he sees. A historian may follow a trail back in time until finds a primary source of evidence or until he gets a story which seems complete. He is pleased when he finds an eye-witness. A historian may seek and find patterns, order, and laws in the doings of humanity. He may discover imperfect, but useful cycles and other movements in our activities and teach you how to recognize them and to use them for your benefit.

From a history one may learn a good way of living and doing. Processes of making glass or steel may be learned from histories.

You can find power and joy in history; I do.

Beautiful Wild Flowers.

"My" wild flowers have been in beautiful bloom for over six months.
All I have done is to expend very little energy in nurturing them as they came to me. I have found joy in that nurturing and in those blossoms. The little bees and the young desert iguanas seem to enjoy them too.

Action in This Place

~ I desire to take appropriate action right here and right now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to better keep sane here and now.
~ I am grateful and thankful to be this season.
~ I propose to practice my friendliness this season.
~ I am ready to learn to be more aware of the source of my grief and pain here.
~ I am ready to learn to be more aware of the nature of my grief and pain here.
~ I am ready to learn to be more aware of the source of my joy and pleasure here.
~ I am ready to learn to be more aware of the nature of my joy and pleasure here.
~ I propose to give myself something interesting and worthy to do right here and right now.
~ I have a whole recovery process before me today.
~ I am willing to have this place well in mind today.
~ I am willing to have this place more truly in mind today.
~ I am willing to use my understanding of this place to effectively prepare to enjoy the adventure ahead.
~ I am willing to use my time in this place to strengthen and energize myself today.

Abundant Life (IMHO of this day)

Ignorance is the way of want. Ignorance of the practice of equality, justice, respect, honor, and love pave a speedy road to want. Want is lack.


Ignorance is the way to degeneration and strife. What is a way to abundant life?


The understanding and and practice of love moves one to abundant life very well. Love is a good way. How is love understood? How is love practiced? It's a process. One could begin by getting clear about some meanings. Improve and extend your understanding of equality, justice, respect, and honor among men. Understanding the the interactions among the practice of law, justice, and equality as components of love helps. Knowing that love includes the best of respect and honor helps. Knowing that the heart of love is joyous nurturance is necessary. Learning that respectful, even reverent, nurturance makes love real, is vital.


A reader of the Bible may find help in getting on this road by noting that Jesus said that his purpose was to bring us abundant life. And then by going on to study the page or two of teachings after he says to love your God. There he points to the nature of love, He points to the knowledge and practice of love. He points to the process of learning to love. He tells the essentials and extent of doing it well. The readers must study, contemplate, and meditate well on his parables and examples. H makes it easy to begin.

Affirmations Here

~ I use me for my greater good here.
~ I am ready to learn to see the good more clearly here.
~ I act in accord with my better judgement here.
~ I honor my capability and use it for good here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to support myself in a new way here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to allow a friend to help me here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to ask for help when I need it today.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to find a new positive way to fill a need of mine here.
~ I am ready to earn to be a better lover here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to experience a bit more safety and love here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to express myself with abundant clarity here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to take fuller responsibility for my feelings, thoughts, and acts here.
~ I am ready to learn to live a bit more abundantly here.
~ I am an excellent and worthy person here.
~ I am grateful to be living in health and joy here.

Love God

Most gods seem to agree that most love is good.


What most gods ask of us seems to be for our own good.


One of the things men say that gods ask of us is love.


Many say that a god considers love to be higher and easier than is is fairness and justice.


At least one god is said to have explained to us that to love is to find joy in nurturing one another.


For those who find it difficult to nurture and enjoy a number of other behaviors which approximate love are suggested. For example, we are told to avoid killing and greed.


Christians who cannot love are told that following the Ten Commandments has been a useful approximation

Let Them Go

Some old affirmations are not appropriate now.

~ I am ready and willing to consider the state of my self-esteem today.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be a bit more aware of the benefits of being responsible this year.
~ I am ready and willing to consider the state of my capability here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be a bit more aware of the benefit being loved this year.
~ I am ready to learn to consider the nature of my loving now.
~ I am willing to remember the joy of doing it for myself today.