Ramblin' on

I promise I'll post a picture one of these days for some eye candy. I don't have a digital camera right now and all my pix are on my other computer which is not hooked up to the internet. Soon. Soon.

Still wanderin' around, going from place to place and remembering that many societies have lived like this. Only they didn't have a car to use as a storage locker.

I've been pretty bummed out about this house situation ... it feels better when I remind myself that property is a pretty emotional thing, bringing up all kinds of issue of security, territoriality and a mix of other things. I don't think we're really in our right minds when we're doing the real estate regardless of whether one is a buyer or a seller.

At this point, I'm quickly deciding not to let this delay my trip indefinitely. I'm going sometime between October 20 and 31. I will be fine, I tell myself. The explorers of olde left their homeland with much less than I have. I will be fine.

I am working on the whole issue of detachment from material things, at the same time as working on getting more grounded in the material world. Sounds like a contradiction? Actually, it's not. We can only detach from the world when we feel secure in it. So that's what I am working on.

I also remind myself that one of my heroes is Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Throughout her life, she worked on building a movement devoted to social justice. For her, that meant freeing herself from the trappings of material success. The Catholic Worker, a newspaper which is still being published today, as well as her many Catholic Worker houses were built on no material security. Just God's grace. She did a lot of good, and one of the reasons is because she wasn't afraid.

I am trying to be fearless too. It's a long, slow process but it's getting easier every day as long as I remember what's really important and what isn't. Which sometimes happens for 10 minutes a day!