1/21/23

On the property...

Rough-in inspection passed. Moving on to filling with remaining gravel substrate and tamping. Neighbor is lending tamper...what a gift. 

In my mind....

It has been my privilege to have been raised and to live among many cultures throughout my childhood and life. I have found only one thing, and that is that people are the same the world over. What unites us is far greater than anything that divides us. And in this respect, it is ignorance that takes a sole physical characteristic and uses that to define a human being. Every day I demand from me the acceptance of other's opinions and ideas of life...and of me. For those are slices of truth through which I am being gifted an aspect that - at best - I had never considered and - at worst - I had judged. It is from this perspective that I see the error in my understanding...

Explanations are meant to please the mind, they need not be true. Nisargadatta


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