Good people, we interupt the start of today's blog to bring you this Special Message😊:
I have been asked, more than a few times, whether or not I send my blog out individually or in "pods."
Some have wanted to comment on the blog or simply say hi to the writer🤗of that same blog, without speaking to everyone who subscribes🤣. Well, I take the time to send out each blog INDIVIDUALLY. It "costs a minute," but apparently and not surprisingly, I am not intelligent enough🙄 to use the app that I secured to make that process less arduous.🤣
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And now, today's blog:
"When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
- Lao Tzu
Precious family, friends, neighbors, and "others,"
I wish you, one and all, a day where nothing but "beautiful" happens and all of your tidings are "glad." I wish you this and more, today, "tomorrow, and always.
Yesterday morning, while seated at my post😊 located in MY😊and Hiram Arvada Haskin's most beautiful park and sanctuary, I was hit over the head with a two by four, by a thought, mine, that wanted special attention, NOW!
The two by four that struck me came in the form of a beautiful young lady who regularly does business with Howard's Dog and Puppy Treats Emporium🤗.
For some reason, seeing her in the "moment of my re-awakening," reminded me of the "wonderful" that I reside in, every single day of my life. It reminded me, seriously, of ALL of the beautiful, gifted, and talented people, all of the loving, caring, and giving people, near and far, that I am blessed to "rub shoulders with" on a daily basis.
While the madness gathers steam in our country and around the globe, Nirvana extends her embrace to me in the form of blessings untold and too many to name here.
Yes, we are daily being tortured from the inside out and from one end to the other of our hope by "things and cretins" beyond our control. The truth is the truth, but all this truth has the power to do to us, at least INTERNALLY, is what we invite it to do.
The children still have to be fed, the friend still needs our love ... and there is music to play and mad-dancing yet to be done.
We must remain, ultimately, open to and willing to do every single thing associated with fanning the flames of a righteous and desirable life for all of us.
"Politics is politics," some of the games being played at our expense, have been being played since the beginning of time and over and over again. But "pure evil" has rarely if ever been exercised to the level that we are experiencing it in 2026. A pig - my sincere apologies to all true pigs - is a pig, no matter how much perfume you put on it or how much orange dye #600 you apply to its skin. Yes the "malodorous funk" that is the little emperor, donnie j. trump, his minions, and his SUPPORTERS,has spread far, wide, and dangerously, but we are still responsible for the things that we do, the ways that we act ... and as well responsible for securing the understanding that we must have to live harmoniously. We can NOT allow ourselves to be robbed of our common decency for "Satan's siren call."
History has shown many times over, the possibility of standing above, far above, even the most debilitating of circumstances. Not mindlessly, certainly not mindlessly, BUT Mr. William Purkey was more than on to something when he wrote:
"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."
In my studied yet humble opinion on this matter ... what else is there to do?
Choose wisely the things that you "place your knee to the floor" for, and NEVER yield to evil.
I don't know it all, in fact it's a sound bet, indeed, that I know less, far less, than each and all of you reading this blog. But because I am "Joyce built" and six years raised by that same Joyce🤗❤️, I do know this: love is undefeated, and if we continue to channel her in all of our interactions with one another, we may get "bloodied in battle," but ultimately we WILL win the war.
Cue the music ... now dance, and never, ever, lose to evil, your ability to smile, "Even when your heart is aching ... ." Yeah?
I'll close with this:
"Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
- Buddha
Always the love.
Your friend, Joyce's boy, aka "Fast Binky"🤣
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