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Resistance. Resilience.

Courage to change the things I can – from the Serenity Prayer.

Everything else is folly.

Today, this morning, I have to go to work for $16 an hour. A year ago I was making $68 an hour. And then we voted in a pseudo-king and his court jester billionaire and Fox News anchor cabinet.

Let’s veer away from politics.

To accept the things I cannot change. The big lesson. I can only control my own actions, my own responses to other people’s actions. I can give them a calm response, an angry response, or a retalitory attack. There are may ways forward. Only one of those three options is mindful. I need to respond with calm.

Several years ago when I was struggling with my now-ex-wife’s decision to seek greener pastures outside our marital home, I found myself living at my older sister’s house. No job. No home. No wife. And 70% of my time with my two children were stripped from me immediately onces the family court got involved. There was no fault. She wanted to try something different. She was afraid of my moods. She had moods of her own, often triggered by mine. That’s what moods are all about. Letting emotions flood and cloud our judgement.

I cannot change what has happened. I cannot rewrite the past. I can WRITE ABOUT THE PAST, but I must move on.

The wisdom to know the difference.

I know I cannot change the past. I know I cannot predict the future. So, my lifepath is remaining in the present moment with myself first, then with others, and finally with god.

Namasté.

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The hope I see in others
becomes the hope I have for myself,
my life, and my own journey.
– The Happy Cashier

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