This moment, sunlight and stillness, quietude and green leaves, air and clouds. (above photo view from my desk) Gratitude for Earth and all Earthlings, present, future, past. Such cosmic mystery and love. Yes. May all beings everywhere realize peace, happiness, understanding and compassion. May it be so.
Gratitude for plants breathing in carbon dioxide and breathing out oxygen. Gratitude for animals breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide. Perfection. Yes.
Breathing in, and breathing out. In the here, and in the now. In love, and in gratitude. I have arrived. I am home. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate, I dwell. Yes.
I am alive. I am awake. Yet there is no separate me. I am part of all, and all is part of me. Yes. I acknowledge suffering, impermanence and interbeing. I relieve suffering by embracing impermanence and interbeing and taking compassionate actions. Perfection.
I care for my body-mind and am happy. I care for all beings near and far and am happy. Perfection. Yes.
I embody and catalyze an ecological, compassionate community, country and civilization. Yes, may it be so.
I acknowledge climate disasters, oligarchic fascism, social injustice, wealth inequality, unregulated AI, warfare and violence. France is on fire. Missiles fall on Ukraine. Lies and corruption pour out of places of power. I write and speak and act and vote to create ecological regeneration, participatory democracy, social justice and peace and nonviolence. May it be so.
It will be what it will be. Let go of desire for results and clinging to ego. It is not about “me”. It is about all beings.
I embrace old age and prepare to let go of this incarnation in gratitude. With imbalance and forgetfulness, pride is in short supply. Isness reigns supreme. Yes.
Leaves move in a gentle breeze. Cars pass by. Electronics hum. Fingers touch keys. Breathing continues in and out. This moment is the all in all, embodying 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution. Here and now!
It is the 31st of July 2026 on planet Earth. Billions of acts of kindness ripple out around the planet. Gratitude, perfection, yes. Today I turn eighty-two. How can that be? Just yesterday, I was a little boy of two, then eight, then a grown man traveling around the Earth serving people and planet, now staying home writing to you. Gratitude. Perfection.
How long do I have left? To do and to be what? What can I give or create? It is all good and perfect. Now, us, yes.
I am still growing and giving. Trust the creative process. Push back despair. Believe and do now. Work with others. Love self, family and all beings. Care for this body-mind. Take refuge in mindfulness and compassion. Continue not seeking fame and fortune but trusting life and consciousness. Yes.
Gratitude for seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thinking, writing. Gratitude for readers. May you be happy this day. Yes.
Hearing from old and new friends, yes! Gratitude. My beloved looks into my eyes and speaks to me. Gratitude. Mr. Chickabee the Cat rests on his altar in the sunshine. Gratitude.
What a profound mystery is this life and death! Perfection. Yes.
For what are you grateful? Make a list. What brings you peace? How have you cared for someone today? It is all good and perfect.
May all beings be happy! May we humans learn to care for each other and the living Earth of which we are part. Yes.
I let go, I let go of ego. Only being being, becoming and breathing. Gratitude.
A butterfly flies by, such yellow! Sunflowers blooming! Such ecstasy. Yes.
Gone, gone, completely gone. Everyone gone to the other shore. Enlightenment, hail!
Thank you mommy and daddy for falling in love and conceiving, birthing and nurturing this baby boy. Thank you for your love and wisdom. Gratitude. Yes.
May I be a mindful elder doing what I can each day to care for all. Yes.
May you be happy and help make others happy! Yes.
Yes, all is good. Each of us is accepted. The past is received. And the future is open to be created. Yes.
May my wife be happy. May our children and grandchildren be happy. May all beings everywhere be happy. Yes.
Thank you, each and all for being here and now. Yes.
Perfection.
May we continue to dance the Dance of Life, remembering there is only the Dance!
Yes and yes and yes.
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