THE STORY OF JOHNNY WHOOPER SWAN We go to school trusting our parents. We meet a teacher there who stands up front with a big desk, and a pointer. She or he trains us in an authoritative manner. We attach mentally to a life long need for authority in order to live lives successfully. Right so far? In my case, at the age of 25 I was ready to enter the practice of law where I hoped for success and a happy life finally. Very shortly, very shortly, I became anxious. There was a foreboding. I was made more uncomfortable with each experience. Law work is nothing like what I was told it would be. The system is corrupt. But I still cling to my expectation that career success is necessary to my happiness as a man. Each day my grasp of what the fuck success amounts to after all becomes more clouded, murkier. I hear songs on the airwaves and at concerts which describe my life as the life of a fool. What am I becoming? I want to rip off my business suit to run naked in the street with my hair on fire! But I am too afraid. In strange, weird (weird comes from a word meaning wise), fragmented steps I go about a journey of my own believing myself to be the first man to have failed in such a total way which journey works so as to break up my career, end a marriage, and start an entirely new way of relating with my two children whom I love deeply. Almost magically I meet a woman who is a career counselor who asserts a beautiful message that I am made to be joyful in my work everyday and at all levels. This understanding sets me on a completely new course. It is no longer a world of systems to me but an undivided one of unlimited beauty. It reminds me of a painting. A true masterpiece. I am drawn from within to learn the truth about my identity and nobody else can teach me that. From this point onward I will use thinking capacity for mastering mechanical processes and follow my heart, which includes my whole nature, which includes your whole nature and that of every human being for all the rest. I’ll go by the name Johnny Whooper Swan who does not explain itself to anyone. By my fruits shall I be known. Watch me soar!

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

CULPRITS
Someone said, pay attention to the good 

 things about your life, your family, your friends, your job 

 and forget about the thorns, the problems they cause 

 you, go ahead and enjoy your life. Really? That is dumb 

 advice if ever any has been given. How can you? It is 

 impossible to remember the rose and forget the thorn for 

 the thorn will surely stab you if you try and that is going 

 to get your attention! It is there. And, you put it there 

 when you decided the good things belonged to you. The 

 rose belongs to no one. As such, it belongs to all. If you 

 choose to leave it on the briar it has no thorns for you. 

 Leave the gold and diamonds in the mountain. Leave the 

 snake to be its own self. Ride only the horse that comes 

 to you and invites you upon its back for a thrill and only 

 so long as such a mustang is in the mood for a rider. 

 Otherwise, do not complain of the thorns. Admit you are 

 the culprit in your own life.
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