“The people of our time are helpless, distracted, and rebellious, unable to interpret that which is happening, and full of apprehension about that which is to come, largely because they have lost a sure hold on the eternal, which gives to each life meaning and direction, and with meaning and direction gives steadiness.  I mean an acceptance and living out of the actual, in its homeliest details and its utmost demands, in the light of the eternal; and with that peculiar sense of utmost security which only a hold on the eternal brings.”  — Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life.

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Me: In the Mystical World, which I am exploring, the eternal resents a reality that exists outside the constraints of linear time, and is characterized by divine connection and the indestructible nature of the soul. Eternity is not billions of years stacked together; it is a state of being where past and future do not exist, only a permanent, absolute present. It is an ancient way of thinking. There is something there for me, I’m not sure what yet.

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Starting the day.

Chicken in the barn.

Through the barn window.

The sweetes and most trusting dog I have known.

This is our story.

Bud in the sun.