To Errol is Human

I wrote the following poem many years ago (1971) about the search and discovery of truth.  I hope the metaphors and innuendos make your discovery rich with surprises and insights. When we performed the piece Rochelle played the "timid" answer--in picture. Answers are Timid Answers are timid, my friend. They're born when the snow starts to melt And blossom when sweat beads fall. They can't be churned out like butter, But must age like cheese. In the desert they lie under rocks. On the mountains they're high on a crest. They're mixed in with confusion one thousand times their mass. One must pan them like god, sift them like flour, Or just listen. Answers are timid, my friend. They're so close you can touch them from here, But you've got to know where to reach Before that answer will ever appear. They hide themselves in corners, On shelves that are covered with dust, And they're in fro...

"So, what's the point?" One answer I've heard to that question is, "You have a bunch of problems and then you're dead." But here's my  short answer....... Evolve EVOLVE--Origin:  early 17th century : from Latin  evolutio(n-) ‘unrolling’, from the verb  evolvere  (see  evolve ). a notion of “opening out” and “unfolding,” giving rise to a general sense of ‘development.’ I'd like to focus on the process of "unfolding" or opening out".  The point being that each of us has within us as much of the totality of existence we want to allow, which we can do, paradoxically, by letting it out, by releasing it-- But, one might ask, "what is equivalent to physical spiraling in the arena of consciousness, for that is likely where "the Point" will be  found? Infinite potential and self-expression is all wrapped up in this almost infinitesimally small bit of consciousness (each of us), but however tiny each individual...

When we say or hear someone say, "God Bless You," what do we think we're doing? What will happen?  Or who is this God?  And what is blessing? I guess that getting a "Blessing"is receiving some goodies from God.  This could mean that God who has been busy either not giving blessings or has not been giving blessings to me and others until it has been asked for is is now persuaded to impart blessings--  Wealth, love, opportunity, health, better conditions, relief from pain, free tickets. But for a deeper understanding of blessing,  let's go to a famous source, the one who started off a bunch of sentences with the line, "Blessed are the...."--the Beatitudes from Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount." For example, "Blessed are the simple, (used to be called "meek") for they shall inherit the earth." Now, to me, that sounds like a mixed blessing, because if I inherit the earth, well....then.....I'm responsible for it....

Too short.  Yeah, you want an answer that's got some ongoing-ness to it.  "Yes" is great, but it's over too soon. Way shorter than an orgasm, even, and that's always a good answer. No, I wouldn't take "Yes" for answer. I'd want answer to be more like, "Whatever you want."  Wouldn't that be a cool answer. Or, "You're never wrong."  Wow, that's a dynamite answer.  Just count the syllables--that alone qualifies it as an answer for the taking or, "You get to decide."--Now, that's a hellava answer, ain't it? But if you have a short attention span and can get by on answer snacks, then "Yes" is okay.  It'll do in a pinch. But one more thing--the reason not to take "yes" as an answer is because no answer, no matter how good it is, can be taken.   After all the very best answers aren't taken.......they're shared-- that's what makes them .........expert answ...

    Tonight is the first night of Passover and the celebration of "The Last Supper"--Good Friday (a religious icon if there ever was one.) It was the last meal Jeshua shared with his apostles. It is a good time to reflect on Jesus' purpose and the symbolism of this event.        Passover and the Last Supper are both about becoming free.  Free as a people, thanks to Moses, et al, and free as an individual, thanks to Jeshua, et al.       I see Jeshua's life as an invitation. An invitation to find freedom in wholeness.      Jeshua is in fact an invitation sent by God--source of all Being-- to join with the rest of reality and work for the betterment of the whole--actually any "whole" in which you find yourself, starting with your self, to make the whole of you more aligned and integrated--body, mind, soul and spirit.       And then work toward the same integration for any system in which yo...

           I'm always trying to get a good deal, which means-- get as much value as I can for as little payment as possible. My mother was considered  a good shopper.  Like her, I am a good shopper.  I can get good deals.      Just imagine all the jubilant conversations going on during the time you're reading this blog, where people are telling each other about the really good deas they just got. You can practically see their eyes lighting up.      "My first divorce cost me over $10,000, I got a really good deal from my lawyer as a second timer. He's only going to charge me half that.  Almost makes we want to get married and divorced a couple of more times.  Think how much money I'd be saving."      But when I realized that God* was offering me a Good Deal, I stopped to ask if the deals I was so compulsively driven to get were really the best deals.       I attrib...

Many of my problems seem just like problems in the past, but now I can see so much more going on in the them.   I've become aware of more dimensions to the problem.  As a matter of fact, the more I step toward Context, the richer the stews and the jams I find myself in. So how about this for a name for the nameless One--often called, God-- "Context." Yeah, think of God as Context. "In the beginning was Context  and Context was with God and Context was God. Everything lives in a context, so you see,.........you can't ever really be late. Context is happy to greet and support you wherever you decide to show up. Sounds like the kind of God I could be-live in. Oh....I already am--Oh, yeah, I forget, There's no escape from context. It's a good thing it's infinite. "But wait! If context is infinite, where exactly am I?"  you rightly ask. I guess if you're part of an infinite context, you don't actually end anywhe...