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