Jelling Resolutions

As I reviewed my pending New year’s resolutions,
carefully organized and written down in my pedantic way,
I realize they fell into four groups:

CHANGING HABITS (ORCHESTRATION)
PUTTING FRUSTRATIONS TO REST (FORGIVENESS)
BALANCING VALUES and PERCEPTIONS (TEGSH)
SETTING GOALS (COMMITMENTS)

The details matter little compared with intent and,
while recognizing some consider ‘linking intent to action’ is ‘magic’,
I do not – that simply ‘being resolute’; but agree that if most of the resolutions come to pass it will be magickal – yet I will persist in the practice.

I am a firm believer in the ‘CPR’ approach to growth, i.e. “out with the bad idea – in with the new,” and “the only thing standing in the way of a new idea is that an ineffective idea is in its place!”

Thus I figured I was prepared – until I chatted with Trigor …

and learned how unprepared I am for fulfillment. To illustrate this point, he slipped to allegory, which I will share with you.

“Consider yourself in contemplation as a jelly filled donut – or a spiral Danish or cherry bob-bon as you prefer. Setting new goals or resolutions might be considered as moving from one plate to another. The challenge is how to move your essential being (the jelly part) without making a mess of the job, as you cannot move just the jelly as the entire donut must come along, with the juicy filling still inside!

Now a donut is coincidentally also a taros, and circles endlessly about to insure you do not forget what brought you here. With a Danish you might envision a spiraled labyrinth leading to your inner-self; while a bob-bon is made of concentric circles to the same effect. What is basic here is that the middle cannot be moved without the entirety of your human self. So, of these four categories of resolutions, even thinking of new goals is meaningless until you have dealt with the other three – and waiting until a specific date will always be too late.

The process of (reordered) – Forgiveness, Tegsh and Orchestration should be a continuously cycled event, which will allow for the setting of new goals with confidence – setting your own ‘new year’ of being. Each sunrise can be a rebirth of where ‘you are going’, but only if ‘who you are’ is be and done.”

Hummmm …

perhaps a metaphysical diet is in order.

papa faucon

Carnival

 

Masks

Purposely not idenifiable

I wear a mask

like the face of a clock

tick tock, tick tock

The extra layer

another surface

of expression

cosmetic and covering

is the facade.

Isle of Prey

Event One

‘Permission to come aboard, Sir.’- my memory is clear on this, now an older man, half a century old. It haunts my dreams of sailing great ships and is always the way the dreams begin. Once aboard the nightmares set off with the sailing ship on a warm night in dense fog.