I wrote this to myself last winter. If you are feeling lonely right now, I want to share this with you, my sisters or brothers, even if I have never met you.
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Yin is not exactly passive. It is receptive. It is mystical in the sense that it receives the grace already present instead of applying too much force. It is gospel rather than law to use a category of Lutheran theology. It is making use of reality, of the forces that already exist instead of swimming desperately against the current.
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Throughout history men almost always have been in charge of the meat. This continues today, as any barbecue will demonstrate. Cooking meat on a fire, as with the ancient sacrifices, is a male-dominated activity.
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This was written after our second stay in Tucson. We started our overland experiment there, heading as far as Key West, FL, then came back to Tucson, our favorite place to hang out.
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“… we might not be able to immediately change whether we have to show up to a job but we can change how we show up to that job.”
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“My advice to you is stop for a moment and look at what’s right in front of you. Where is there beauty right there near you that maybe you’ve been too busy to pay attention to. Go find that. Embrace that. And I think that joy will become part of you. People will ask, “What are you so happy about?”
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As I stood at the host stand with a mandatory smile, and with no guests in sight, I slipped into a sort of meditation. I wanted to catch each moment of now. I wanted to see if I could force myself to be aware of the eternally-fleeting-instant. I noticed that it was difficult to pinpoint "the Now" because, despite an illusion of being aware of the big web of existence, one can only ever operate in a string of Nows.
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