Simple

Happy Tuesday! 
    This is the day that Jack and I designated at our 'day off' every week this summer. In our sunlight-deprived month-of-March minds we mentally filled this day with canoeing excursions, long lazy afternoons and evenings strolling through the streets of Boyne City or Charelvoix. The reality thus far? Sleeping in until the cats wake us us- approximately 35 minutes past the regular alarm, going through the mail for the week while drinking coffee, making a list of chores that need to be done, adding up worker's hours and doing payroll , making the grocery list for the concessions that week and realizing that if we don't get all of the prep done today for the week we will be hopelessly behind come Friday... se la vie .... Summer up here equals balls-to-the-wall-craziness and its best to simply go with it...
  Craziness does tend to breed anxiety and crabbiness in me if I'm not careful and I can quickly find myself not enjoying anything that should, by all rights, be entirely enjoyable. To counter this I have found myself simplifying EVERYTHING. I have worked very hard to throw out the idea of 'should' -- 'should' I do the laundry? Depends- will the world come to a fiery end if I don't? No? Then don't do it if there's a nicer alternative activity present. 'Should' I make dinner or is cheese, crackers, and fruit fine? Yes- that's just fine -LOL! Especially if Bleu Cheese is involved :-)
  This concept applies to both my mundane world of laundry, food, and house work ( my one rule is that I can't unnecessarily inconvenience or cost someone else in my simplifying) and my Spiritual world. I have found that the twin scenarios of being very busy and getting older have left me with a very condensed view of my Spirituality - It Just IS. Labels bug me- really; who cares if one calls oneself a Wiccan, a Christian, a Buddhist, a Jew? A Witch, a Dianic Wiccan, a Warlock, a Baptist, a Catholic? I want to know who you ARE and what you DO - not the label you've strung around your neck because- quite frankly - I have found that most people hide behind those signs and the walk doesn't match the talk. So many practices are just unnecessarily complicated  ; dogmatic rituals that do not enrich done out of the fear of NOT doing them, looking for one's 'tribe' at every alternative event and festival that pops up in a 100 mile radius . BTW- this whole 'tribe' and 'soul group' thing makes me nervous- its a very small step from identifying 'your group' to labeling another as 'the other'.  
  I used to be very very concerned with my label- who was I? what did I believe? what didn't I believe? what group did I fit with? And no this wasn't in high school LOL! In my ripe old ages of the 30's these questions were all-important.  In the last 5 years or so -- moving into the downhill slide of the 40's and headed to the 50's-- most of this just doesn't concern me; my Spirituality is simple; CREATE. Create for the good of myself and my world and those who are in it. I have no 'group' - though I do sometimes miss that. I'm not concerned with my 'soul group' - just because I may or may not have done this life-dance with someone in times past does not mean we are necessarily compatible this time. Energy and Power are neutral and the building blocks of  ALL- I choose to use them to better myself and my current life. With no apologies. I believe in Spirit and spirits and that the energy and thoughts that we feed these things will determine their interaction with this realm. Is there evil or bad out there? Yes - because negativity and hatred has been religiously and ritually fed to a vibrational entity. Can I throw white light and happiness at it and make it all better? Probably not. Instead I can CREATE the life and experience that does not include negativity that I can do nothing about. (read that carefully).

 So there's my musings for the day - 

Simplify.

 Labels hide the truth.

 Screw the laundry and go canoeing :-)

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