Real Life

Soar and anticipate the skies.

William Cowper
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Hello Geo
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Isn't it odd how we spend most of our adult lives somewhere between asleep and alert? I used to wear a button on my denim jacket as I wound my way through the bars, clubs, diners, theatres and apartments of Greenwich Village during my Beat days, which read "Real Life Isn't Like This." I still have the button somewhere. You can probably imagine the comments I got from people who saw and read it. They ranged from the insulting to the inane.

The button was simply an emblem of my suggestion not to just take life as it appears to be, not to judge the Book of Life by it's cover. It wasn't, nor isn't, a supernatural life I'm vending but a super reality, a superior reality. I'm for lifting one's head above the ordinary, mundane and often insipid reality most of us are faced with on a daily basis. I'm for expectations. I'm for search and discovery.

It's a matter of consciousness, it's admitting and knowing there is a greater picture of things than we are used to. There is a more beautiful, freer, more elastic reality than the tight, sealed and predictable little reality we have grown accustomed to and, in fact, designed or allowed to be designed for us.

Think of those moments when you come cross something you've never heard of before. There is plenty of self-destructive evil to uncover in the world, for sure. But there is more good to be found than we know about until we, first, acknowledge that it's there even though we've never heard of it, and second, that it is within the realm of our understanding, experience and appreciation if we reach for it. There is enough new/old, ancient and modern living to be done to keep us fascinated and turned toward an enhanced life.

Real life lives beyond positive thinking, beyond keys to success, beyond rules for good behavior, beyond and above doctrine, dogma and doxology. It is the undefined and undefinable spirit of possibility of which our daily lives are less than 1%. And it doesn't matter who we are or what we do we all have the right to look up and breath in that spirit.

DB - The Vagabond
Never Give Up
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4, count 'em 4 days to answer the
SUMMER QUESTION

The end of Summer is fast approaching, people.

It's a long, hot, sticky summer, so here's a hot, sticky question for you.

Same sex marriage. Should it be legal or not? If so, why? If not, why not?

dbdacoba@aol.com

21 interesting answers so far.

You have until the last day of summer, but don't dally.
I eagerly await your answer.

DB
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