A bit more to do about what's to be done yet

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Adjust your circumstances to suit your nature.
-Cary Tennis

Over the weekend, I had a moment of connection with
the divine.

What, you think that makes you special?

I have had them, though they've been too rare recently, and
generally been achieved with effort rather than spontaneous.

Shouldn't it just happen? If you're trying, maybe you're trying too hard.
Or maybe you're just imagining things.

This one, though, felt a little different than the others.

Granted, I was in a position where it was possible to happen.
But that is often the case, as I seek out things that nourish
me when I struggle. So: I was outdoors, with music and a book,
in a crowd but separated enough. Still, I wasn't trying at all.

Instead, I felt the universe *trying* *around me*. I felt it
nudge here, shift there, and click into place for a moment.

How incredibly ego-centric of you.

I'm just saying that instead of random or forced, it was...
"Welcome back. Visit more often. I'm here waiting for you."

Come on. The universe is blind.

How can it be blind, when it sees through so many eyes?

If spirituality is one's personal, private experience
of the divine, is religion that same experience shared
across a community? Does the communal always change (or
destroy) the personal, or can it actually enhance it?

Since then, cheerfulness, competency, learning, usefulness
mixed up with tired, grumpy, boredom and lack of ambition.
Typical material existence ups and downs.

No, not that special. You wouldn't know me if you saw me;
I look just like everybody else.

But value any glimpse of a world outside -- world ahead.


Thanks for the half-nightmare, Tir'na na Nogth.
So: if the T-shirts are labels, and I had
trouble getting them on and off, and I never
found the one I wanted in time for the start of
my Masquerade entry... how can I change my script?

Books I am reading right now:
_Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider_ by Suzanne Clores
_Border Reminiscences_ by Randolph Marcy
_The World of Shamanism_ by Robert Walsh
_This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring_ by Waddell, Barnet, Berry