Riding the Chaos-Beast 101

I've spent the month dealing with addressing the challenges Life-Its-Own-Self have been throwing at me and the rest of our poor old consensus-world lately.

(No empathy needed, guys...it's just all research, after all. When your "niche" is trying to suss out how little ol' you is going to shape your world, all this hoo-hah is "raw material." )

I've made the discovery that, f'r real, deep pondering is a lifestyle choice. In order to get to it you have to be in an environment (of your own making or not) and walk a certain goofball way that gives you the TIME required for...well, thinking deep.

When there is too much turmoil -- either in your inner worlds or in the consensus-world surrounding you -- routines and habits can help you hold your own matrix together pretty okay, but you can get really busy doing that.

It gets hard to turtle-out properly.

That is when the tranquility you've been trying to grow in yourself is tested. Multiple 2x4s coming at you requires alertness and a heck of a lot of ducking.

If you decide to lie flat in the matrix soup of The Way Things Were, you might never get up again. Those durned things are intimidating! And then there's the possibility that they'll all break loose and fall flat on top of ya. (Argh!)

So you dance. You try like crazy to practice your cascade-juggling techniques.

Pondering is not a move you can make in the middle of this dance-cum-juggling act.

• What works is completing your beginnings. Done and done and done.
• What works is keeping an eye on the direction you are wanting to go.
• What works is fertilizing the ground for your own deliverance.

In the middle of all this, you have to figure out how to catch hold of the 2x4s one by one (without getting creamed by the other ones).

You try to stop each one's wild pendulum-action-swinging by doing what you need to do to get that little bit of your world back to congruence and to pono (proper) functioning.

You complete whatever you need to do to get to some sort of resolve or other and to clear away the detritus of the aftermaths of consensus-world catastrophes or whatever.

As things quieten, as they calm down, you look for the little spaces where you can get back to doing the little moves that foster your own trail-blazing.

Whew!

Don't know where this thing is going yet, but the ride's sure been a helluva trip!

Hope you guys are having fun.

Take care, y'all. Thanks for the listen.