Ted Seymour - Explorations of TruthI’ve been in a funk the past couple of days, feeling very low energy and having difficulty motivating myself to get things done or to take care of some of the more pressing issues in my life. I’m thinking it has to do with Hookie still and her death. The day that I buried her, […]
I had my dear Hookie put to sleep ysterday. What a difficult and beautiful process that was for me. I put off calling the vet all morning because I guess I really wasn’t sure what to do. Actually, I put off calling the vet because I didn’t want to let her go. At one point […]
I think it’s time. I’m really realizing why I’m keeping Hookie around even though she hasn’t eaten in 3 days and is getting noticeably weaker. It’s because I’m not ready to let her go. Reminds me of a song I once wrote with the lyric, “And I know as I’m letting go/That I don’t want […]
My dear little Hookie is dying. She has had a wonderful life and we’ve had the grace to share that together. 15 years together. She’s weakening, rarely if ever eating or drinking and getting a little wobbly on her 3 legs. It’s quite sad yet beautiful at the same time. What feels very true is […]
I’m noticing this morning how much I love and hate a word: “Silence.” The love part is the deepest joy and contentment that can be found in real silence, just being still and letting everything unfold moment by moment. The hate part is when there is much to be said in relationship or in the […]
I’ve recently become acutely aware of the concept of “Right Speech.” My experience of it has Buddhist origins. The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, laid out the Noble Eightfold Path, which, if followed, help lead the pracitioner to enlightenment. Right Speech is the first principle of ethical conduct on the Eightfold Path. The Buddha explained right speech […]
Time to write a little more about speaking the truth, what that entails, and at this point a curios exploration as to why we all so often dance around it. It seems that I, and I believe most of us, are plagued by a compromised tongue. There may be a truth we are feeling and […]
Something is brewing a little under the surface so I want to bring it to light, not to explain the “truth” of it, but to perhaps help me to get closer to understanding it, and hopefully help it to release it’s power over me. Last Thursday I was planning to go down to the Bay […]