I’ve been back in RI at my sweet place for a much needed personal retreat after a remarkable and challenging academic year that ended well but nearly exhausted me. I’ve written about doing a retreat before. Years ago when I hit the proverbial wall, a coach of mine, Dr. Monica, suggested that I take a few weeks each year to retreat to my place of solitude and ‘live in the moment’. I couldn’t think of a worse thing to do and pushed back hard. But she assured me that if I did this well, it would change my life. And so it did. Now it’s a healthy habit.
Holy smokes! So much is happening in the world these days, it’s hard to know what is actually real. Recently I’ve been reading Charlie Robinson’s The Octopus of Global Control about what is referred to as the Deep State which is both hilarious and so shocking. It’s mostly quotes by real people who say the most troubling things. Don’t get me started on David Rockefeller, may he rot in hell, and how he tells us in his autobiography that he and his family work against the interest of the US in order to eliminate people like you and me so the world can be run by the more worthy elites. And then there’s the daily insanity of the Trump presidency. Who knows what’s really going on there? I have anti-NWO friends who think Trump is a savior and progressive friends who think he’s destroying the republic. To my observation, he’s the latter. A fricking nightmare of a wrecking ball. A complete disgrace.
But then again, who knows? I long ago decided to hold the belief that everything I’ve ever learned is wrong. It keeps my mind open.
Being here in RI by the sea is good for the soul because despite the world’s turbulence, you can count on the tide changing each day and the sun does come up every morning. This is a banner year for bunnies and gophers, there are plenty of birds and even a young skunk family living nearby. And the occasional fox is encountered. So all is well here in Heaven and the rest, as they say, is illusion.