Getting to know you, getting to know all about you me...

I've been invited to read at the blogs of others, and I kinda liked the ease of format, easy url, a handy list of favorites, and easy to read feedback here, and I like blog so much more than column, journal.  Blog is informal, comfortable, personal, and personalized.  Thinking out loud here is comfortable like relaxing into the soft warm of my favorite leather chair.  It just feels good.  

I was looking for a new journal.  I have several in progress, but when I turned 65 in October something changed.  It actually happens after every birth date, but for some reason realizing a change is always a surprise to me.  I believe that I may have rediscovered the perfect venue for my day to day,  on any given day.  Grateful to be with you. 

It has been so long since I've blogged here, I forgot that I have the blog.  It's just as well because a lot has changed since January of 2011.  I have changed a lot since January of 2011.  I look back to then, and farther back than that, reviewing some of my experiences, and my role in those experiences, and realize how naive I was.  I thought I knew something, but I didn't know anything.  Well, not much of everything I maybe should have known at those stages of my life.  I had a choice in every one of them, whether I realized that in the moment, or not.  In many of them, I chose wrong.  Oh, and did what I didn't know hurt me?  You betcha.  Not deeply, but the consequences of my naivety or ignorance were inconvenient and uncomfortable to me.  In some cases scary.  Ah, the process of tempering steel.
In  "God is Real", Krishna Das chants, "I have found a way to live in the presence of the Lord..."

I have found a way to live in the presence of the Lord