Freedom
It was a good night in the Self Expression and Leadership Program for Lynn.
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2004-06-25
Answered a question
And answered another.
I was asked by a friend what role I wanted to play in the further adventures of the Human Awareness Institute of Southern California. It's a great question since I've pretty much dropped off the map for the current working team. Faded away without a word.
I didn't have the word, actually. I've been wrestling with my commitment to HAI. This is different, by the way, than my commitment to HAI's mission statement:
I am fully aligned with "a world where people live together in dignity, respect, understanding, trust, kindness, compassion, honesty and love."
I'm just not sure I have enough to contribute AND enough to get to make it worth my continued efforts.
I answered her question about my short term contributions and found the likely answer to my long term involvement.
I expect I'll become an "inactive intern" shortly.
I was asked by a friend what role I wanted to play in the further adventures of the Human Awareness Institute of Southern California. It's a great question since I've pretty much dropped off the map for the current working team. Faded away without a word.
I didn't have the word, actually. I've been wrestling with my commitment to HAI. This is different, by the way, than my commitment to HAI's mission statement:
The Human Awareness Institute (HAI) empowers individuals to be potent, loving, contributing human beings. HAI promotes personal growth and social evolution by replacing ignorance and fear with awareness and love. HAI aims to create a world where people live together in dignity, respect, understanding, trust, kindness, compassion, honesty and love. The Human Awareness Institute is committed to "Creating a World Where Everyone Wins."
I am fully aligned with "a world where people live together in dignity, respect, understanding, trust, kindness, compassion, honesty and love."
I'm just not sure I have enough to contribute AND enough to get to make it worth my continued efforts.
I answered her question about my short term contributions and found the likely answer to my long term involvement.
I expect I'll become an "inactive intern" shortly.
Time Enough For Love
Time. The passage of time. The trip the earth makes around the sun or the time it takes to spin 360 degrees. The hyphen between two dates on a grave marker.
Sometimes it seems to race by without a glance in our direction. Other times it seems moribund. Yet the very physics of night and day don't vary with our moods.
Living in the future -- always being concerned about it or anticipating it -- slows down the clock until we are ready to scream. Living in the past -- trying to figure out what went wrong or right about yesterdays happenings -- and time rushes by.
Either way, the only time that matters is the time right now. The physical second on is in. One's relationship to what is completely current.
The sense of time disappears when living in the now. The idea that there isn't enough time left or too much time has passed becomes absurd. Procrastination loses its appeal.
Living in the present can give a sense that time is elastic. There is always just enough to cover what needs covering. No time left over and nothing left out. Always enough.
Living in the moment gives color, depth, form and magic to the hyphen that represents one's corporeal existence.
And in the present -- at this point in my hyphen -- I chose to love. For in that is satisfaction with the moment. Love is.
Sometimes it seems to race by without a glance in our direction. Other times it seems moribund. Yet the very physics of night and day don't vary with our moods.
Living in the future -- always being concerned about it or anticipating it -- slows down the clock until we are ready to scream. Living in the past -- trying to figure out what went wrong or right about yesterdays happenings -- and time rushes by.
Either way, the only time that matters is the time right now. The physical second on is in. One's relationship to what is completely current.
The sense of time disappears when living in the now. The idea that there isn't enough time left or too much time has passed becomes absurd. Procrastination loses its appeal.
Living in the present can give a sense that time is elastic. There is always just enough to cover what needs covering. No time left over and nothing left out. Always enough.
Living in the moment gives color, depth, form and magic to the hyphen that represents one's corporeal existence.
And in the present -- at this point in my hyphen -- I chose to love. For in that is satisfaction with the moment. Love is.
Just the little things
That can drive me crazy. I use the evolution mail client. It's a very nice system that has a feel somewhat like Microsoft Outlook. However, it has far more features. I really like it.
I also use the galeon web browser. At least, I like it again now that it has been brought back up to speed.
However, evolution isn't very smart about hyperlinks in email. In upgrading my system, clicking on a hyperlink fails. I know what the failure is, but I've been unable to track it down. The error message is, as usual, incomplete.
But even if I get that fixed, evolution does not seem to be able to handle html forms in email. That is a real missing. Responding to LJ response notifications is a pain in the butt right now.
On the other hand...... No. There is no other hand, here.
Love.
I also use the galeon web browser. At least, I like it again now that it has been brought back up to speed.
However, evolution isn't very smart about hyperlinks in email. In upgrading my system, clicking on a hyperlink fails. I know what the failure is, but I've been unable to track it down. The error message is, as usual, incomplete.
But even if I get that fixed, evolution does not seem to be able to handle html forms in email. That is a real missing. Responding to LJ response notifications is a pain in the butt right now.
On the other hand...... No. There is no other hand, here.
Love.
It shouldn't be this hard
Now that, of course, is the first sign of an OOPS. :) "should(n't)" and "hard" are not words that bring enjoyment with them. :)
I had to load all of gnome to fix the evolution/galeon problem. It was a simple fix, but I couldn't find the file that needed changing and I gave up. I finally loaded up the gnome control panel to set the necessary file.
Love.
I had to load all of gnome to fix the evolution/galeon problem. It was a simple fix, but I couldn't find the file that needed changing and I gave up. I finally loaded up the gnome control panel to set the necessary file.
Love.
Now that's annoying
I was going to do some sysadmin work on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lizetta's computer while I was doing a bit of dog sitting tonight.
I can't remember the root password. Arrrrgh.
I spent 20 minutes typing everything I could think of and I don't think I even came close. I remember the state of mind I was in when I created it, but I couldn't even recreate the state of mind.
Oh well. I'll get another shot at it soon. :)
Love.
lizetta's computer while I was doing a bit of dog sitting tonight.I can't remember the root password. Arrrrgh.
I spent 20 minutes typing everything I could think of and I don't think I even came close. I remember the state of mind I was in when I created it, but I couldn't even recreate the state of mind.
Oh well. I'll get another shot at it soon. :)
Love.