THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY

 THE DUTY

a self therapy

"The most beautiful thing we can experience

is the mysterious. It is the source of all

art and science."

Albert Einstein

       Suffering now, from an overload of information, politics, boorish behavior  and

the numbing of seemingly mindless consumption. Worrying too. Why did an old friend walk off a parking garage? How will dear friends with health issues fare?  Tired now of those who divide, who assert theirs is the only truth. Life's stumbles.

"Where is the life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The world turns and the world changes,

But one thing does not change.

In all my years, one thing does not change...

The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil."

T.S. Eliot

    

        Relief, like a tonic, comes with a retreat into reading of great minds, great thoughts

and great words.

"There is no duty we underrate so much as

the duty to be happy."

Robert Lewis Stevenson

"People of superior refinement and

of active disposition

identify happiness with honour..."

Aristotle 

The best we can do is to go with it.

"Make the most of each day."

Karl W. Cochrun
MAKING THE MOST OF
BY CELEBRATING A DEAR FRIEND

It was the same drill.  The Friday Lunch Flash Mob assembled at what used to be our almost private reserve.

Vacation season and visitors to the castle up the hill have lengthened the lines-but today was even more special

By the time it was it over, our number had extended to 22. We kept adding picnic tables to accommodate.  The special occasion? A birthday of a woman who we figured is probably the lynch pin of the group.  I'm avoiding names to avoid invading any one's sense of privacy. She was one of the first people Lana and I met when we moved to the Central Coast.  She introduced us to many, as she has done with most of the others.
So, without causing you embarrassment-Happy Birthday dear friend and thank you.
And so this day we find an emphasis on HAPPY!
Friends are a key in the beauty of the wonderful mystery.
And the joy of friendship is indeed wonderful therapy.

See you down the trail.