March 1, 2026: A Motley Potpourri

Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes. Bryant McGill

There is no thought, behavior, individual, or culture that does not come with exceptions. Hoonōs

Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Shakti Gawain

A brief psychology lesson.

The ego is defined as “the reality principle,” and reality is not static.  In fact, there are realities that are unknowable to human beings.  Therefore, an ego that is egotistical, is an underdeveloped ego.  Underdeveloped does not mean unnecessary, it means incomplete.  Even a properly developed ego, knows it needs help.  Even my “alter ego”—Hoonōs, knows this.

A brief bio:

There is nothing in my life, much less in my writing, that is egotistical.  I know this even if no one else does (many think otherwise).  Nonetheless, I make no claim my ego is highly developed.  It is not.

As I close in on my eighth decade of living, my epitaph becomes clearer and more likely.  “At least his personal demons did not get the better of him.”  With a deeply honest and a humble, yet mischievous grin, I’ll take that as a success.

Proceed reading at your own peril.  If you’re looking for golden nuggets about life, you might do well to remember one’s interpretation matters greatly.  Someone’s golden nugget can be wealth or worry.  After all, a gift is decided by the receiver, not the giver

And away we go:

A circle is a reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end—and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. Maynard James Keenan

Opening and closing spirals constitute the heartbeat of the universe.  Walter Russell

I can think of no living being that can self-provide all of their needs.

Needs are not the same as neediness.

There is no wrath like a woman scorned, not any man born who has not felt forlorn.  Actually, this also applies in reverse.  Such a state or trait does not mean an opportunity to take advantage.

That we have to rely on others in so many ways, does not mean individuals are simply “marks” for the taking.  Yet we all know that there are an abundance of folks in the service industry who  really only listen for what they can take.

Adversarial collaboration is a far smoother road than confrontational denigration.

It seems quite reasonable to contend that grace by omission counts.  “I wanted to stab them in the face, but I didn’t.”

I wonder if the devil has PTSD because of the fall.  Perhaps the lesson is not to get too lofty without a safe place to land.

When one gets into territory as profound as love, unworthiness is a shadow.

Intimacy has a lot of variances. That’s a problem for the “one definition to rule them all” crowd.

“Happy wife, happy life” or “Happy man, happy clan” is a subjugation, not a collaboration. Transactional interactions can be fun, but cannot become Alpha.

Negotiations involving romantic intimacy involve emotional currency. The same “loser/winner” formula is in play when we deal with intimacy like it was monetary currency.

Situational awareness is learned by practice. Knee-jerk vitriol is a reaction, not a practice.

Perhaps the best way to deal with chaos is to do the best we can to create peace instead of more chaos.  Many times, that means doing nothing.

In most folks, it is the left-hemisphere part of the brain that says and the right hemisphere that sees. Whatever the issue, those two, working together, can better triangulate where we are emotionally and intellectually.

Signal detection is important.  Otherwise navigation becomes obscured.

Framing a question creates the window to see out of.  Windows are narrowly framed.  One might need to construct different frames to expand their view and their signal detections.

Failing is not the problem, the unwillingness to try is.

A.I. can be a useful tool. However, so far that tool accesses what sapiens have put “out there.” When A.I. becomes its own source, the context will change.  That’s what happened when sapiens were kicked out of the Garden of Eden.

Eden sounds like a feminine name.  That’s a fun thought when considering the story of getting kicked out of The Garden of Eden.

I wonder why Microsoft named their A.I. “Co-Pilot?”  Somehow, the bumper-sticker “God is my copilot” comes to mind. But,  Christ has no hands but ours.  St. Teresa of Avila (thanks, Steve),

New learners can find the encyclopedia of A.I. very useful.  But information gathered from an encyclopedia does not have the same weight as information discovered on one’s own.

Sapiens construct. Nature instructs. Both require attention.

What isn’t out there can be a knowledge gap.  When the library at Alexandria burned down and all the writings were gone except for Aristotle, how would we know what else was put “out there?”

Value has both a personal and collective spin. A value to one, may not be the value to others.  Nonetheless, there are those who categorize “winners” or “losers” based on a static construct of value.

Losing is the most important part of learning what being a winner means.

All learners need the “pause construction” tool.  Dialing down screen time is like getting away from all the “talking heads.”

Beware the storyteller with a huge grievance and an artistic license. Joyce Rachelle

Perhaps even a bit of a grievance?

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing is a field.  I’ll meet you there. Rumi

Well—sometimes I’ll be there when I temporarily knock the grievance chip off.  After all, setting aside time for crazy, can make things less crazy.