https://www.kasson.lib.mn.us/ I picked up Marion Mountain's The Zen Environment,  she talked about the practice of acceptance of what's in front of you.  This world around us is so vast, and most of time, there's little or nothing we can do to change what is presented to us. Reading Tara Brock this morning. Radical Acceptance, ‘Inviting Mara to tea: the practice of sending yes.’ When we offer to ourselves the same quality of unconditional friendliness that we [...]

There is a subtle art of leadership among the Cherokee, my father is adept at it. I wrote this piece a decade ago. It is only because I was close enough that I got to witness it. I was back in north Georgia visiting. Dad said, "Let's load up in the truck." We went down to the VFW hall, he opens the door, (he's got the keys), turns on the heat, then tasks me with mopping the entry. [...]