For me, the overwhelming complexity of what it means to be human is to let things be simple, to perceive as deep what seems so very uncomplicated.
My challenge is to be still of mind and heart long enough to notice.
Some things are taken care of before we even get there.
Sometimes we just walk in, laugh for a while, and kiss a baby hello.
My Blog Sister Jeneane writes (excerpted above) about watching her friend deliver her third child. Jeneane’s clear notice of life’s deepest moments is legendblogdary.
If only it were really that easy to “let things be simple.” It seems that they are for some and for others, well, not so.
I really do wish I believed in Karma, in some divine purpose. But every day is a crapshoot. We are at the mercy of those little steel balls in some quantum pin ball game.
Taking a deep breath helps. (Even though doing so also makes me cough these days.) Going with the flow; trying to enjoy what there is of the ride when it’s not being trying. Letting the things that take care of themselves take care of themselves. And then taking care with the rest. Escaping into another realily every once in a while. You know — headology.
My mother’s shingles seem to be coming back. She is 88 and tired of those random little steel balls. Everything hurts. I try to take care. I want to laugh and kiss a baby hello.

I used to be able to get to the NY Times online. All of a sudden, I can’t. I’ve make sure my cookies are enabled. I tried to register again, using another ID. Nope. So while I can’t get to this piece about the presidential candidates’ clash over values, I can link to it. I know it exists because it’s reprinted in my local newspaper today. The final paragraph of the article slips in this little bit of, it seems to me, important information:
On another front, the Pentagon said military payroll records that could more full document President bush’s whereabouts during his service in the Texas Air Natoinal Guard were inadvertently destroyed.
A further search leads to this AP article, which I can’t get to on the Times but I can on my local paper online. Included is this important reminder:
Bush was in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968 to 1973, much of the time as a pilot, but never went to Vietnam or flew in combat. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic presidential candidate, is a decorated Vietnam veteran, and some Democrats have questioned whether Bush showed up for temporary Guard duty in Alabama while working on a political campaign during a one-year period from May 1972 to May 1973.
I can’t wait for a movie of Bush’s devious life path to come out after he loses the electons. Down in flames.