Episode One Hundred Sixty One, We Might Have to Medicate You
It will be my 70th birthday the day this post goes up. The day (unless I'm miraculously killed instantly) that I will no longer be able...
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Cile
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Sixty, She Responded
.. Hope is the last refuge of those who rely on a benevolent future. Hope doesn't go the distance when there is no expectation of a...
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Cile
- Sep 12
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty Nine, The Suburbs
Most of us live on the edge of passion - the edge of each moment's potential. When we are young we fight to be in the middle of the fray...
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Cile
- Sep 8
- 3 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty Eight, Sometimes I say to a Poem
There were times when I was writing my thoughts down - thoughts that would end up being my book - when I would reread what I wrote the...
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Cile
- Sep 5
- 3 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty Seven, And For No Reason
Reason...the pinnacle of mental prowess for millennia. And look at us now. We are overthought and overwrought. I guess Hafiz saw this...
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Cile
- Sep 1
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty Six, A Hard Decree
Hafiz lays into a warning for all inmates of love to find joy in their work or suffer the consequence. This caution seems to be thrown...
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Cile
- Aug 29
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty Five, Spiced Manna
I have recently had the unusual experience of losing my sense of smell and taste due to a symptom of the virus Covid-19. It has inspired...
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Cile
- Aug 25
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty Four, I Imagine Now For Ages
Does what we are doing today reverberate through all human experience through the ages? Somewhat of an overwhelming thought. This idea...
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Cile
- Aug 22
- 3 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty Three, The Great Expanse
Hate is not the opposite of love. It is fear that is the opposite of love with the antidote being the journey to finding courage. Hate...
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Cile
- Aug 18
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty Two, All The Talents of God
Who has not felt the flush of identification of realizing that one is actually in the presence of something worthy without needing it...
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Cile
- Aug 15
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty One, Dropping Keys
Not everyone is given to wonderment of the mystery of life. I'm not even sure if these fascinations are an honest pastime. It doesn't...
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Cile
- Aug 11
- 1 min
Episode One Hundred Fifty, Why Aren't We Screaming Drunks?
Hafiz surmises that we would be beside ourselves and screaming for joy were it not for our orientation towards building and maintaining...
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Cile
- Aug 8
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Forty Nine, Until
We are born terrified. It is our nature to struggle to arrive in all that we do. We do not peck, peck, peck our way out of an egg shell...
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Cile
- Aug 4
- 3 min
Episode One Hundred Forty Eight, A Hole In a Flute
I have been studying the occult of late. This word caused me a great deal of anxiety when I first encountered it in relation to my life...
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Cile
- Aug 1
- 3 min
Episode One Hundred Forty Seven, Elegance
"...It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others..." writes Hafiz. Blaming and shaming are habits we cultivate often unconsciously. We...
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Cile
- Jul 28
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Forty Six, If You Don't Stop That
Being silly is big medicine. All cultures have known this. Laughter and the unexpected jams the overactive mind who is mostly involved in...
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Cile
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Forty Five, Scratching My Back
I'm a cat person but I'm fascinated by the kind of unconditional love that canines bring into our lives. They are like constant reminders...
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Cile
- Jul 21
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Forty Four, Two Giant Fat People
Living in abundance and luxury has proven to be too much of a good thing for many of us...especially those of us born into a predominance...
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Cile
- Jul 18
- 2 min
Episode One Hundred Forty Three, Damn Thirsty
I was raised to not trust my body. I was taught to distrust aches, pains, hunger, desires and any kind of signals I may receive from my...
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Cile
- Jul 14
- 1 min
Episode One Hundred Forty Two, The Hatcheck Girl
What is is about being human that requires us to have so many devises to keep our ideas of ourselves safe and comfortable? Hafiz...
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