The Plural

We refer to ourself as 'we.'  To call ourself 'I' is to deny all other aspects of ourself.  The other aspects of myself have meaning.  If those aspects weren't meaningful, those aspects will not manifest somewhere in our being.  Therefore we are we.  

Experiencing Adversity

Yesterday morning at the place where we get hot water for our instant oatmeal and pour over coffee the barista said to me, "I don't know how much longer I can give YOU water.  My boss is becoming impatient.  You come here ALL DAY and don't buy anything."

We did not feel safe.  The place has a policy that all people who enter the store whether they buy something or not are customers.  We felt all of our emotions from the projection of the employees' hate of themselves onto me.  We searched ourself for how to respond in a positive way.  We will copy our thought process below.

    Hello Journal we had a barista here say "I don't know how much longer I can give YOU water.  My boss is becoming impatient.  You sit here ALL DAY and don't buy anything."

    Okay well what will we do?  How will we respond?  Well we just googled starbucks store policy and we are welcome to continue as we wish.  How will we respond to the "Boss" who is having a personal problem with me?  We feel unsafe.  Shall we contact Starbucks Customer Service 1(800)782-7282, maybe.  Let us find out the name of the barista and the name of the boss and any employee who has the same perspective about me which is inconsistent with store policy and makes me feel unsafe.  Catherine Connors is the name of the manager.  Gabby, the barista said "It doesn't matter if I have the same opinion."

    Okay well we will write our testimony and call customer service.

The above was how we coped with the adversity.  We wrote to customer service about our experience.  I really wish we copied our submitted testimony of our experience for this post.  We called customer service three hours later.  The customer service associate Evan asked if we would like the district manager to contact us.  We responded in the affirmative.  We imagine apologizing to the district manager as the store manager is a reflection of the district manager's ability to discern quality attributes in people.

Today, the environment at the store was much more welcoming and safe.  We are thankful for the store policy and the effectiveness of the company’s response.  We are thankful for all the progress we have made in responding to our emotions and environment.

Tattos are Disgusting

Tattos represent permanant hatred of your own body.  

Regardless of what meaning you choose to give the ink - the mark is a symbol of ignorance to the perfection of yourself.

Despite the author's opinion of the awefulness of tattoos, numerous people with tattoos love him and he loves them.

Someone inquired about how this post helps the youth.  This post encourages the youth to have pride in the perfection of their own self.  Love yourself!

We Forgot a Title

With the rise of elderly having dementia or alzheimer's, we wonder if our culture is playing a part in the prevalance.  People choose to work insainly or choose to deny themself the truth and force lies into their opinion to maintin their denial of self.  We believe those choices lead to dementia or alzheimer's.  

We really don't know what truly leads to demntia but we do know how to treat those with such a condition.  We treat those with such a condition with self-control, gentleness, faithfulness, generosity, kindness, patience, peace, joy, and love, just like everybody else.

The Weirdest Thing

Being alive has got to be the weirdest thing.  Everything that is alive will die.  You are going to die.  You can't escape death.  Some people believe in an afterlife or reincarnation and in all those beliefs the understanding of death remains.

So what is the point of being alive if we are all going to die?  We might as well choose to have a positive, healthy, expansive perspective in our short time of our existence.  

How unfortuante we are to be around people choosing to express themselves in a negative, unhealthy, contractive way.  Thankfully we have the power to infuence others by living a life of virtue, liberty, and independence.

Hot Hot Nights

One night last week was incredibly hot and humid.  

We entered the fetal possition or child's pose and began to wail in grief "God help me.  God help me!  God help me!!"  We noticed we sounded pathetic.  

We rememberd God helps those who help themselves.  We remembered the light of God is within us, we are the light of God.  We then wailed "Tyler help us.  Tyler help us!  Tyler help us!!"  After developing pride for me to help us, we gained the courage to be neutral of the hotness and humidity.  

We are thankful to have the permission to park on private property.  By parking privatley we can sleep with our doors wide open and not be bothered by the public. 

A Society of Ignorance

 Air conditioners make the environment hotter - not cooler.

Connecting for Commonwealth

Connecting for Commonwealth 

Our Generation

 Service Aligned

Imbued with Spiritual Virtue

Sharing Love

First Night Back

 Everything is going to be okay.

The day of our first night was so incredibly hot and muggy.  First sad as we left our covid sanctuary we found an incredible sense of excitement in considering my time in this existence.  We chose to excitingly live in our existence, to be thankful for all things.

Developing courage to virtuously live independently with liberty we committed to acquiring a thong for future days of humid heat.  In our quest we discovered another thong we needed - one for our feet.  The quest for the proper foot thong to satisfy my particularly simple tastes finally came to an end for the season.

We parked at the place near the river in time for a doeth before sunset to organize our current dwelling.  Although privileged to park privately so I might open the doors - the humid heat did not abate.  Intermittently we would pause to pour water over our head to cool off from the encroached water vapor.

Our final pause we extended for as long as we could - almost intending to maintain the pause all night.  For our pause we sat in a chair far enough away from Wilma to feel a breeze.  Then came the rain cooling of the high heat.

Everything is going to be okay. 

Filling the Void

At the Fountain House porch we stand or sit filling the space our late friend reserved.  The space he held was one of philosophical inquisition, and a gentle curiosity for people and things near and far.  He was open to sharing and teaching powerful perspectives and perceptions of existing.  

How will we fill the void left in his departure?

Come here and speak, see, and hear for yourself.