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“We are information in search of forms, and sustainable forms are best.

“So, we may express as different forms and see if they are sustainable, and then, if they are expandable. Can this form and that form complete a more complex set of information.

“We are in search of the most inclusive expressions of the information we are. And we can’t express our information fully in isolation. A verb does not a sentence make. O, yes it does. What? ‘Go!’ O. But ‘Go!’ means nothing if there is no ‘go-ee’.

“The number 3 by itself means nothing, yet it is information. But plug it into an equation and much more becomes clear... and the answer is Trenton. GW once was in Trenton... and M, too. Both would prefer to forget.

“So, information. But don’t confuse information with facts. Just don’t! Understandings, road maps, small little pocket schedules, bits of datum, sticky little orts of being, iotas of insight. Information is never form-specific, but it can be represented in forms.” (9/15/2011)

“You live in existence of dimensions. That’s way it is the. See, you like linear order. But just because you function best in that scheme, does not mean it is the basis for all existence. But it is your be-and-end-all, and then to contemplate what is beyond, you project that outward and see what fits that pattern. If you encountered a really novel expression of existence, you wouldn’t recognize it.

“All your probes of the universe are based on the known. And here’s a little tidbit: The most amazing potential discovery may come back on a space probe, but not in the data chamber but on the fourth flange of the secondary drive wheel. In other words, where you wouldn’t even think to look... grrrr. What? Grr. Ok, fifth drive wheel. Just like Earth travelers who go to another country, looking for a good local Beaujolais. So there!

“Even this, as you notice, uses letters of the past, while I am communicating to everyone all the time in many other modes. Moooo à la mode.

“We only give out metaphors so y’all won’t be totally clueless. And then what do you do? Take them literally. Because in your existence, precise reality is more comfortable. You ought to see our equivalent of roads. Lanes? I think not. And what works for us here wouldn’t work for you there, and vice versa, and these two ways of being are just 2 out of all. Ponder that!” (9/19/2011)

“We spirits have to point out something to you: We differentiate... woof... to appear to you, but here we are just one giant spiritual soup–bits of me here and there, always on the make... no no no, always trying to make connections.

“Can’t do that differentiated because 'differentiated' implies rigid boundaries, and rigid boundaries are inimical to connections. That doesn’t mean we lose our sense of identity (entity identity), but that we don’t let that limit us. Physicality is all about limiting things. But since we don’t have time and such other dimensions, it’s all up... or down or over... for grabs. Get it.

“Every great spiritual leader taught this, tried to live it, got dead trying usually. It’s like people not understanding how jellyfish can be creatures... and how about the Ooze Monster. Tell someone you want toothpaste and they immediately think of the tube, not the paste. And unless they have original improved advanced whitening anti-gingivitis gel, forgetaboutit.

“So, we jellyspirits just blob out–seeping, oozing, but not confusing. You see, I still know what’s me is me. I don’t need the artificial constructs to keep that real. Ok, pith down.” (9/24/2011)

“ ‘I’m sorry, this stall is occupied.’ I think they need a shit-in. Occupy all the toilets on Wall Street. There’d be no place to go. They’d be pissed. Cosponsored by Preparation H.

“It is what we have been waiting for. TJ says it’s about time. He also said 'great vintage', but I digress. He thinks he started it. (Mufi: 'Meow.') He’s very busy, providing glue for disparate interests of change. So, we have the go-back crowd and we have the go-forward crowd. A choice, and which one is more promising.

“It is reminiscent of whether we keep the old interests in place while the common folk are denied, or we keep the common folk in place while the élite are denied. Time for pitchforks and torches, or writs and declarations and barricades in the 13th. 'Will you join in our crusade.' They should get a chorus to sing that at a cardboard barricade.” (10/4/2011)

“Occupied and occupied--as in, the occupied West Bank and the occupied Bank of the West... and many bathroom stalls say ‘Occupied’. Get 'Occupied' stickers, put over doorknobs, over electronic key slots in hotels. Remember the dude opposite Parliament–just more of the same, or is that more of the shame. He camped out. No true democracy needs to worry about an occupation movement, so I guess.... The streets belong to the people, except for small chunks here and there.

“Interesting to watch from afar. So, what does it look like from here. A mess, such a mess... and those shoes. Actually, it looks well organized, without any sugar daddys. Networking! Words. And universal, not particular. They want a specific focus, but it’s about principles and values, not cases and arguments--next level up. Don’t tell me 'what', tell me 'why'. And the corporate powers are bewildered because they think cause and effect, as opposed to principles and actions.

“Market research can’t disclose ethical leanings. Market research asks 'what price will the public allow', and this movement asks 'what will the public accept'. Just enough nuanced difference to bewilder–just like Mr. Potter could never understand George Bailey.

“And ask the Founding Fathers which side they’re on. ‘I’m here! Hey, if we could do Valley Forge for the winter, Wall Street is a piece of cake... or at least a good bagel. We occupied a few houses ourselves.’ “ (10/7/2011)

“So, if the edge of a plane shifts, one would expect that the opposite edge would shift in a similar and parallel manner so the planar surface is maintained in proportion, but noooo. Just try to be on one cutting edge. (BTW both edges are cutting, but the one you’re on will be the one you think is the only cutting edge... but I digress.)

“So, you’re on the one cutting edge that you can see, and you shift the edge. But what you can’t see is that the opposite edge shifts–not with you, but opposite to you, so the whole plane gets larger while the center stays the same. You get an illusion of movement and change, but it’s only an illusion because the center has not shifted. But, if you are at the center, the core, the essence of the plane, and you shift the center, then the two edges shift as well. Actually, they both shift toward the center–contract to stabilize. The plane becomes more intense, but centered on a new locus of meaning.

“This is contrary to the usual notion that shifting the end point of a continuum... continuum, ah, continuum... woof... means that the center shifts towards the edgeshift (cousin of the hedgehog; short, bristly, usually clueless; Republican and radical alike; nearsighted; thinks it’s working on big things when it is just tinkering and causing small ripples of canceling edge changes). You want to change planes? ‘Don’t do it at O’Hare.’ CT. Go to the center, not the edge. And that’s why Occupy is primally felt as threatening, because it’s not about organic sprouts or veganism, or about libertarianism or about ‘real’ American values, but about questioning and shifting the core. It’s not a fringe expression.

“Shift the center and the rest will follow, and even more tightly focus. A bit of whack job does nothing in the long run, but even a tiny shift of the core sends seismic shocks to everywhere. Ok to be liberal or even radical, but bring it home at the center of the system. Don’t revel in being a stalwart conservative or a progressive rebel, but know how to get to the roots and the center bole. Don’t be the flaky leaves, but get to know the core sap. Just as, in a person, you can try to change their habits, but get them to have a change of heart or a change of mind or a spiritual 'aha' and then real transformations occur.

“A plane is defined by its center more than by its edges. Ok, pith over. Pass the hot fudge... grrrr.

“If you focus on the edge without a view of the center, you could just fall off the plane. Bye-bye. Get so far out you can’t (metaphorically) see the center, and ooops. You can work on the edge, but it is only an edge if you know where the center is. And you want to do edge work such that it moves the center, but not invoke the reaction of the other edges. So, at the bottom line, we can all make it if we focus on connections. If your edge work is about being as far as possible from the other edge, you will be disappointed. But if your edge work is about trying to get your edge closer to the center, that will take knowing and moving the center.

“Abolition was not about pushing the limits ever farther, but about getting the core to see slavery as wrong. If the focus had been pushed to include the chattel status of women and children and wage slaves, and working conditions and predatory lending and the misuse of social welfare, etc., the core could not have been moved as it was. King knew to keep it about black civil rights, and the center moved while all kinds of edges shouted, ‘Me, too!’

“Got to know the core shift wanted, more than the particular gains desired. It never was about quartering of troops; it was about unalienable rights. And the details could be worked out over centuries. We are still at it. Ok, enough.” (10/17/2011)

On Halloween, at midnight

“So, folks always talk about the 'thinning of the veil'. What is this, a wedding with cheap couture. But the veil is a metaphor for the perceptions of the beholders–always thin, but not seen as such. If you could move all the physical crap out of the way...

“Yous guys need to get a grip on unreality. So take away the physical and you don’t see planes, just more like soupy fog... or foggy soup... ‘or Soupy Sales’. CT.

“So, you got this soup, and it’s always mixed and waiting. No issue of thinning veils. The veils are in your mind, not in the soup... unless someone dropped one in. Happens! Without fingers, mistakes happen.

“So, you have a holiday that lets you suspend the need for strict physicality and you think it has to do with spirits, but it’s about the physical side of the perception... and candy. And parents having no control over what we eat.

“So, again, a reminder: Planes are just metaphors for the presumptive physical limits that physical beings place on their perceptions in order to have a physical experience. It is the necessary differentiation to learn and remember certain info which would be hard to discern in a bisque or consommé, Purée Mongole, broth. But I do hope existence is more substantial than broth." (10/31/2011)

“Did I mention bubbles yet? Spontaneous intrusions of meaning into otherwise nondescript planes. Explains Stonehenge.

“A bubble of insight and understanding arises in a seemingly normal plane of existence, and within its bounds are enlightenment--which stretches outward until the bubble of meaning can no longer sustain, and then pop, it’s like it was never there. Not an intrusion from outside, like aliens, but a bubbling of potential into a transitory existence for a short time and a specific locale.

“See, everything we know now could be known at any time, but it wasn’t, except for some places where it bubbled up like tar on a hot tin roof--a concentration of possibility so intense that it is realized, but only until that realization is stretched so thin that it cannot sustain. I’ve said enough for now.

“Don’t assume that major divergence from the ordinary comes from outside the familiar. There’s a PtoP for you. Don’t need aliens or spooks or ghosts or spirits. Possibility is always seeking fulfillment, and sometimes it gets so intense that it collects into sudden expressions.

“Seems random, but since everything is connected, how could it be random. Chaotic, yes; random, no. Evolving and revealing outside of either known or discoverable patterns, yes; random, no. And the score is No 2, Yes infinite.

“It is in the character of being, of existence, of yes, to want and to strive and to even fulfill all that is possible--and not just what is most probable, but all. It--and I mean existence here--will try anything to come more into being. It’s not a zero sum game. Hence, we exist in abundance. Ponder that.” (11/5/2011)

“So, bubbles of understanding on the planes of sameness. Just saying.

“Watch this: A bubble floats along, then lits on a place on the plane, and the bubble dome remains while the bottom spreads out to conform to the plane, and we have a little mini-dome of greater perception and understanding. In one area. Check out history; see it is so.

“Meaning can shape itself to reality. So, for example, people often talk about a place being 'godforsaken', which means it contains no meaning. But abiding meaning is plastic and can shape itself to the conditions. In fact, a faith that is not pliable and plastic is a sham... or is that a bedskirt. I don’t know.

“If meaning is meaningful, it is not conditional, but rather conditioning. It forms itself into the circumstances, rather than stand off and make snide comments. Love can abide even in the most harrowing of circumstances. It does not require a scented rose or a dim restaurant or violins... o no, not violins! If there can be meaning on the other side of anything, then this must be true. Ponder that." (11/10/2011)

“11/11/11. Ok, let’s take an abstract arbitrary system of physical measurement and endow it with spiritual meaning. Sure, makes sense to us. Like, 111111 holds more potential than 062387. Got to love the human drive for mystical certainty." (11/10/2011)

“It’s Ponder Theatre. ‘Sandra.’ ‘What, Dad.’ ‘Are you playing with Bobbie’s thoughts again?’ ‘No, because they’re old thoughts.' 'He thinks they are new, but they suddenly travel back in time.’ Grrr. ‘What, boy.’ Grrrr. ‘Bobbie’s down a time well? What should we do.’ Grrrr. ‘Or who should we do.’ Arfé. ‘The doctor?’ ARF ARF. ‘O, a Time Lord.’

“And so we leave them, back where we found them, but the thoughts expressed moved faster than time. O dear, I just guess it goes to show. ‘What?’ you ask. That the speed of light is no barrier to information, as any two-bit neutrino knows!

“And bubbles. Just remember that they are only really useful when they don’t produce judgment or superiority. Warning: Increased awareness may lead to strife. Use cautiously. And consult a spirit if wisdom lasts longer than 4 eons.” (11/19/2011)

"Turkey Day, Papa day, many days. Celebrate all that is and has been. It’s a great prelude. Something is always coming into being. Welcome the stranger. He might have myrrh." (11/22/2011)

“We do have a democracy, and the people are claiming it. Can’t have democracy without turmoil and, after 2001, people tried to avoid turmoil and messiness and this is where we got to.

“Turmoil avoided is systemic pressure internalized, until the mechanisms of control deny the very qualities they are intended to protect–just as the mechanisms (the coping mechanisms) of grief keep many from healing and wholeness. I spoke the other day–or decade–about walls. That’s what I mean. A wall protecting democracy creates a prison. Put that up on your bulletin board with lace edgings. A sampler for the 21st century.

“It’s not like we resolved everything in 1776. We just started a new round. The revolution is an attitude, not an event. So don’t despair, just be present to the trying times which are now.

“Democracy is process, not content. Sometimes it is in the booth and sometimes in the street. And watch out what you wish for. The same laws which protect against terrorism, protect against citizenship. This is either a time of correction or a time of revolution, but it will not be allowed to be a time of suppression. I think I’ve said enough. Spirit conspiracy laws might be invoked.” (11/25/2011)

“They are plain planes folk from a single and a singularly plane existence. 'Have you ever been really excited,' I asked Fred, and he said 'Why?' O. He was suited to this reality, and learned nothing from it. I think he will go back and enjoy Kansas this time.

“Just because we fit in our situations doesn’t mean they are the situations of our learning and remembering. MCP learned more in Asia than he ever did in the Giudecca. 'Hey-a, what about Sophia. She was a from the Giudecca.’ Ok, point taken. 'And she has a mustache no in Asia have.’ He will go back quietly. Now! ‘Ciao.' ” (12/3/2011)

“Jesus: Blond, blue-eyed, tall, and Christian looking... just like I know him to be. He stands at least an inch taller than MCP. A little on the stout side, swarthy, needs conditioner. And those nails. What were you? Born in a barn? O, and what do you mean, was charismatic. He can turn a spirit any day. And he has a way that his thoughts get in, even when you resist. Oops, pith.” (12/3/2011)

"It never was about Bethlehem or about ancient Palestine or about the Ben Joseph family or God. Could have been anyone, anytime, anywhere. It’s about the message, not the details.

The great things in spirit are never locked in physical places or special times or limited lives. They are universals–-which extend beyond all bounds and inhabit all particulars. What is essentially true cannot ever be absent. Unseen, yes; absent, no. And, as much as any entity tries to live outside those truths, it is impossible to do so. Just try! And the history of humanity is the history of trying to live outside of them, but the living reality in each entity means that is futile." (12/24/2011)

TJ:

“Gracious friends of liberty, I wanted to remind you that we must always be on our guard against those who would side with us in our struggles to shake off the bounds of tyranny, which they feel deprive them of their rightful standing, but who then quickly propose new models of obedience which do not serve the larger equality but only advance their parochial interests. It is often easy for some to speak of the will and the needs of the people, when they are only really seeking their own ends.

“It is a delicate dance which democracy invites us to partake, not a gallop of heavy feet and measured steps called simply by a replacement caller. The strict code of the English country dance is still oppressive when danced on new ground. What we seek is neither the continuation of old forms of subjugation and authority, nor of replacement systems of personal gain; rather, we seek the means by which all can let the nightmares of the past drift into pleasant dreams for the future. And the one who wakes from a nightmare, only to have the need to rehearse the nightmare to all company, dreams it not once but perpetually. Only when we can daringly and confidently close our eyes and let go of our vigilance because we feel the fulfillment of the dreams of freedom around us in commerce, in religion, in governance, and in nature’s providence, can we finally dream beyond the past.

“We are not created to right wrongs so much as to admit and admire rights! So, beware those who are fascinated by error and driven by need and captured by rules, for they may speak a revolutionary tongue but their lives betray them. And remember always, you are not in the struggle until the victory; the struggle is eternally yours and ours and all people’s.” (1/2/2012)

“Ok, pith. Just because there are rules, doesn’t mean there is meaning. And a win in a meaningless activity is empty of any real value. Never... no no no no, don’t ever mistake winning for achievement. ‘And don’t mistake hash browns for potatoes.’ CT. Don’t mistake CT for intelligent life. He loves it. He’s signed on for eternity, after a brief encounter away.

“But seriously, rules do not imply meaning. It bares... no, bears repeating. Just like lunch, blech." (1/15/2012)

“There is a release of energy so the combination can take place. A good combo produces energy in excess of what is needed to stay stable. An unstable combo takes in energy to become and continue to be. But a stable one, capable of moving toward greater complexity, has an excess of energy beyond the energy needed to be. So, a stable entity seems creative.

"And while certain individualized elements of simpler existence appear gone, they are retained in the energy released. It is part of all existence, and so it is part of the entity and beyond the entity--given up, but not lost. Like a member of a stable culture gives energy into the whole, and can no longer claim it exclusively, but still can benefit from it. That’s benevolence.

"Giving so some other entity can possess it is charity, but giving to the whole so all can benefit is benevolence. Stable, more complex entities are benevolent. Ponder that.” (1/15/2012)

“I’m different in spirit. I look more like a manatee... moo. We all don’t look like anything. We just are. ‘But some smell.’ CT, speak about yourself. ‘Touché.’ Oooo, French. Come here, my little cauliflower, and I’ll put some dressing on you. ‘French?’ Non, creamy Italien. ‘Hiya.’ O dear lord, it’s like living at Comedy Central. I laugh at everything, hahaha.

“So, seriously, we don’t look like anything. Because sight is a physical sense, and so are touch and taste and smell. ‘See!’ CT! And hearing. But you know all this. When you have a mystical experience, it is beyond description and senses. It just is–pure sensation without sources of senses. Our existence is senseless. But in your existence, senseless means meaningless, but here, oooo la la, the meaningful is transcendent of the senses.

“Ok, if, in the physical world, meaning generally arises from sensation and its integration into constructs of meaning, and here meaning arises out of the essence of being, then physical meaning is dependent, while spiritual meaning is not. We have a direct relationship to being, which does not require the intermediary step of sensory experiences and their interpretation. So, I never have to say (except to CT), 'What’s that mean.' To him, I say 'Huh.' 'And she does!'

“I say 'What are you' and the answer to that is a recitation of pure being. And if I said it to you, it would be incomprehensible because it cannot be reduced to words or letters on a piece of wood. And one thing to remember is that, as hard as some may push to have you concretize the being, there is no need on your part. If each would focus on her or his or its experiences, and less on common validation and interpretation, things would be easier. Why can’t people just accept the Mona Lisa’s smile without demanding to know her reason for smiling. ‘I know! Gas!’ LD, shut up. ‘She-a had fagiola for lunch.’ LD. 'Ok, I invented that story. CT put me up to it. He said you were giving away the farm. If people don’t need interpretation and meaningful integration of experience, then how will charlatans stay employed.'

"Remember, those who interpret what others experience are voyeurs. Those who help others experience and integrate those without interpretation are counselors. It’s the experience and what one does with it, and not what others say about it, that matters!" (1/20/2012)

TJ:

“My friends, the essence of liberty is not the absence of form and structure, but a strict adherence to the principles of freedom.” (1/20/2012)

JC:

“When we speak out of fear, we will always find answers of error. For in my Father’s house, the small rooms always seem filled, but in the vast chambers there is always room to grow.

“Once there was a man who traveled to a foreign city. But once there, he sought out the quarters of his people, that he might dine safely and with familiarity. Another man traveled also to this city, and sat with the first man over dinner and several cups of wine. As the night wore on, the first said to the second, ‘Isn’t it good we could eat together and be comfortable in familiar surroundings.’ And the second said, ‘But sir, this is all foreign to me, for I am away from my people. The food is not mine, the wine is foreign. But I am comfortable because your company is familiar.’ ‘What?' asked the first. ‘You are a stranger and a foreigner. How can this be so.’ And the second just smiled and said, ‘Because I focused on our connections, not our differences. Go and live likewise.’ ” (1/20/2012)

Rikkity's Bench 1/23/2012

Rikkity: “And now, from the Fourth Ring of Meaning in the Plane of Understanding, it’s Sandy’s Bench... grrr. Wait, wait! Let’s start over. Now, from the Fourth Ring of Meaning in the Plane of Understanding, it’s Rikkity’s Bench... gggrrrr... with her loyal companion, Sanford McPooch... ARF ARF. Brought to you by Wisdom. If you don’t have Wisdom, you don’t have squat. Remember, it is easier for a wise soul to order a burger than for a rich person to thread a needle. Oy, who is writing this week. ‘I am.’ O. Sandy... ARF... clear the bench. Woof... snap. And a few fragrant spirits... or was that vagrant spirits... grrr. O, fragrant vagrant spirits.

“Today we have the SP Literary Seminar. Now, first a disclaimer: Not all of these are... no, all of these are not... no, none of these... no, some of these spirits have returned to physical being between their famous lives and their present spirit status. We’ve asked... no, I’ve asked them to focus on then, not recently, because who cares about a chiropractor in Caracas. Well, maybe more than an exterminator in Minneapolis. Just think of writing as editing out the bugs.

“Let’s get started. And remember, tea will be served later. So, let’s give a big Bench welcome to JD.”

JD:

“Hello, and gracious welcome. I ask you to meditate on these thoughts: It is easy to be so focused on one’s own issues and identity, that it may feel like we are in this existence alone. But the struggle is to see that one’s identity is intrinsically connected with all else. To experience life and death as if autonomous and atomistic, is to so limit oneself so that nothing is learned and so nothing is remembered--except that nothing was learned.

“Since the basis of all existence is connection, then a life lived in separation is a denial of life and existence. Want to be a simpleton, then act as if nothing is either influential nor consequential of your being. Stand alone, and pretend to be just a clod of earth, not connected to any continent.

“Ring ring. O, the bell rings for me. Ta-ta.” (1/23/2012)

Rikkity: “Wasn’t that awesome. He gives the best sermons, except for Dad. He's all done in. Don’t ask about rodents! I told you! Ok, onward. DD.”

DD:

“Hiyo. I have often pondered the fate of the lonely soul. What if I live my life as if alone. What would it matter. Often I have sought the solace of my own company, rather than suffer that of fools. Dinner in my own company is far tastier than any at formal table, and yet.... Would I desire such separation as my whole being. I thought this course for many a day. Were I stranded on a deserted isle, would it be Paradise. Freed of the compulsions of civilized cultures, would I rise or fall. Given the Edenic choice, would I seek to stay or flee. And this is my conclusion: that were I truly alone or not, I should soon seek to connect myself to all that was about me.

“Perhaps no ladies or lords would demand my proper etiquette, but would not the trees and the flowers and the birds have other demands of me if I were to stay healthy and sane. Would I not have to inquire and determine the lay of the land as much as if I were charting the course of my social life. Each and every one of us, whether we be on life’s or death’s side, find a calling to context to know where we are as much as who we are and, in fact, the two are one in the same. For there is not isolated existence, even in the appearance of such.

“I pondered how our fears might manifest themselves into perceptions of threatening 'others,' and how our delight in isolation might arise to new heights upon the discovery we aren’t alone. In the end, the experiences of isolation remind us of the beauties of social company well met.

“Sometimes the footprints of another can usher in the universe. But I must go." (1/23/2012)

"I must interject."

Rikkity: "Ah, AS.”

AS:

“I am the prototype for DD. His musings were my life, made fictional. But could my life be other than fictional? No portion of culture nor society prepares any for the harsh realization of what had seemed a dream.

“Find yourself abandoned in Paradise, and see which rises in your spirit: Paradise or abandonment. Surely, the first becomes possible only if one can deny one’s intense ego. To cry out 'I am lost’ does nothing; to cry out ‘Look at what I’ve found’ begins the journey to wholeness. Existence is more about discovery than loss. And it took me time, and most of my sanity, to discover this.

“As the great Master taught, you must lose your life in order to find it. Now I am content to sit in the seemingly familiar, ever attuned to the places waiting to be discovered. And I am off. Do you need an adjustment?" (1/23/2012)

Rikkity: “O dear. And, not to be outdone, and complete with three... count ‘em three... initials. ‘Heya.’ No no no no, RLS.”

RLS:

“Hello. So, what is the real treasure. Is it a question of a hidden treasure, and all the fearsome characters that surround it, or is it about each person’s journey from young innocence snatched away to voyage life, trying to discern whom to trust. Or is it the tale of empowerment, found not through ease and comfort, but toil and risk.

“We often think the treasure is physical when, indeed, it is spiritual. The longest journey in search of such treasures often reveal the bounty to be much less valuable than the journey itself. I went away a boy in search of adventure and treasures, and I returned a man with the treasures of experience and wisdom of self.

“We are always somewhere full of the unknown, the frightful, the trying, the risky. And the challenge is to engage, and not seek to be set apart from the struggle. You never stregnthen any muscle sitting at home in your comfort.

“It is in the seeking that one becomes. And that is life’s great adventure. (1/23/2012)

“I am so thirsty.”

Tea lady: “Well, lovey, just you sit down here. I’ll have my boy fetch some water for the kettle.

"Ah, he’s a better man than I."

"And the Oolong will brew. And we all will have a cuppa."

"Thank you, miss."

"Miss! I’ll have you know I’ve been married and divorced by war 3 times!"

"O, ma’am."

"That’s better, if you want tea.”

Rikkity: “And so the Bench is served tea, and I sit and sip. And until Sunday, we remain your humble servants. After that, who knows. Portions of this Bench were pre-ignored. Transcripts are available at www.spiritualpersistence.com. And now, for UTV, this is Rikkity, reminding you to write if you get work and hang by your thumbs.”