April 29, 2008 Gratitude

Sunday is World Laughter Day…never new that.  We need more laughter. Be grateful for the human comedy.

I take specific time every day to be grateful – though spontaneously, not scheduled.  Certainly, whenever I have down feelings, I remind myself of the wonders of life – simple sunlight, a spring rain, the miracles of my family, the blessings of having friends.  Gratitude is a very high state of being – sends out great vibrations.  And, I’m sure, attracts great vibrations.

I am convinced of the validity of Me to We coaching.  In fact the path to a winning future is creating a Me to We world.  Gratitude can lead the way, replacing resentment.  With resentment you forget what to be grateful for.  With gratitude you can enviion a sustainqble environment, spiritual fulfillment and social justice.

April 28, 2008 Quanta

Another week starts.  We see things as discreet.  They’re not.  Seeing them as discrete entities erases their historie, their extensions, their interconnectedness. 

I notice that when I wake up, I am thrown to seeing a new day.  It’s not, not really.  It is the current stop-start in a continuity of thousands of days.  As I look back over these, I see how prone I am to individualizing my writing and the days I write.   Of course this isn’t so.  I suspect that there is some sort of story unfolding and unfolded.

This is one of the things we all do.  As I age I have some small sense of history – some of my own and some of the times I’ve lived in.  Now I focus on a sustainable environment on spiritual fulfillment and on social justice.  Pieces of this have marked my life – sometimes not at all – sometimes constantly.

Keep learning and keep seeing more of it.

April 27, 2008 My Greening

Yesterday I co-facilitated a Symposium (Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream)… It is more powerful than ever, always evolving.  It grows as it goes, because so do we. 

I’ve bveen asking myself, along with Nancy — “What’s next?”..There are some things we can do that we’re not ready to do:  replacing all our windows and getting a new furnace.  And there are some things we can’t figfure out how to do:  getting rid of all plastic (we can’t figure out how to eliminate all plastic wrapping on food products, but we’re coming close.  But we can’t possibly commit to not getting more eyeglasses, never buying computer, car, cell phone, etc.) so we’re putting that on hold.

But what we can do is increase our talking to people.  I started a new blog today:  MYGreening.  And I’ll start speaking about what we can do without scr ewing ourselves up….There’s nobody but us.

 

April 25, 2008 Focus

I finally realized, after 71 years, that I’m simply not focused.  Probably chronic, undiagnosed ADD.  It’s been a virtue, lets me be involved in many things.  Would account for my writing, art, computer skills, teaching, diverse projects – lots.  And it also qccounts for my being pulled in many directions at once.

I’ve been forced to see this.  Whenever something new comes along, I want to try it.  And too many new things come along.  So I don’t fully explore what is suddenly old, because I’m eager to do what’s new.

So I try to use very broad brushes.  That way I focus on my brush strokes.  I focus on a sustainable environment, on social justice and on spiritual fulfillment – a healthy world and all of us in it, including me.

April 24, 2008 Today is Different

I did today backwards because I brought my car in for service – So I hit the gym at 7:30, then to the car place, then home for breakfast and a client.  So here I am at 1PM, doing my morning.  I wonder about the rest of the day.

I have the luxury of creating every day – I suppose we all have, even if it’s totally scheduled.  Inside the constraints of scheduling, we still create every moment – I caught myself when I said this is a luxury, but like most of us most of the time, we don’t realize that we really do create every moment.  Our minds are always ours; our responses to inputs are our responses.  And the responses determine the day, not the inputs.

For me, this is n’t Earth Day, or week.  It’s Earth Always.  And there’s nobody except us who are going to get the job done.  I got rid of one of my cars; I use cloth bags to shop with, I belong to a local CSA; I use wind power for 20% of my PSE&G bill.  I use CFBs.  But that’s not nearly enought.  I don’t eat red meat, but that’s not nearly enough.  I stand for environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment.

April 23, 2008 I Forget

I forget that I’m okay.  I forget that I am loved.  Mostly I forget that I matter, that I make a difference.
Mostly, I forget my stands in life; I delude myself and sell out for survival. Too bad.

April 22, 2008 Earth Day

I am committed to a sustainable environment, social justice and spiritual fulfillment for all of us.  Earth Day is about all three.  You can’t have one without the other.  If I lived in a cave and meditated –And survived only by breathing, I would still need the mountain, the cave, the air… would still need to be left alone.   We cannot support the environment without social justice – Who will force the government to take any action?  Only all of us.  And who will stop that action from harming the disadvantaged, keeping the wealthy undisturbed?  Only all of us.  In fact, “only all of us” could be our. mantra

April 20, 2008 Happy Passover, michael lipp

And happy birthday to my grandson, Brandon, who turned 6 today.

We decided to have a totally non-traditionl day – a breakfast seder celebrating with matzo brei – followed by (oh, help me) Chuck E Cheese.  I’m done in.

Aptil 19, 2008 The new immediatley by michel lipp

I always start the day by writing this.  I’m starting my day late.  Shopping at Whole Foods, then toys for Brandon – tomorrow he’s 6 – at Target; then a quick good morning to Camron and making lunch.  We are having a non-seder Passover; Too much young, undisciplined family . I celebrate my freedon by allowing them theirs

Anyhow it’s my annual treat of matzo Brei for breakfast.  If you don’t know what is is – it’s French Toast made with matzos.  Superb.  Eatedn with jam, maple syrup, sugar and cinnamon.  My father just used salt and pepper.  So a quicky — To your freedom; And our planet’s

April 18, 2008 Exercise ———–michael lipp

Went to see my chiropractor last night.  I’m down to 168 -  2+ years ago I started at 245.  I can now see myself at 160 – even less.  I have to buy new clothes again.  Also looking at how I exercise.  Taking Camron for daily walks is actually sufficient.  I like to walk; looking forward to exploring all the walking tours on the Cape.

Haven’t written a  lot here – because I’m writing a lo all over.  Really pointing to the teleseminar I’m giving in 12 days.  And the Symposium I’m participating in a week from tomorrow.  I love the possibility of turning people on to new futures.  My commitment is to a new future for all of us – or environmental sustainability, to spiritual fulfillment and o ocial justice.