BeYouT Within

Everyone should understand that in these times there are people we interact with on our fave social sites, that unlike most people, they are alone. Meaning, if all digital communications just suddenly stopped existing today, these people would be left in a (physical) world of strangers. Do y'all know what the implications of that are? Imagine, if you had no familial relations, no one in your life has known you since childhood, and you haven't anyone in your daily life that you have known from the time they were a kid. No school-hood buddies to swap stories 'bout back-in-the-day, no longterm friends you've known since your first marriage, no one who was around when you fought injustices that stripped away at your savings, no one whose stuck around the last ten yrs, who remembers when wrongful foreclosure took your house during the Housing Crisis, no coworkers that you kicked it with on your day off, or was with you at the company picnic when the ceo announced y'all ...

A  friend of mine, that don't from here, tu sabes, said during a conversation- "You guys talk about Albuquerque cops being  so  crooked, like, cops anywhere else aren't crooked at all. What you think? The cops in NY City are soo just by the book..." We laughed at ourselves. I think cops a necessary part of society. But, c'mon, Officers, think of your own families while your out there, be more relaxed- listen with your hearts to the society you rolling up on, s'pose to be protecting (your departments should add to that - encouraging), not profiling, use common sense in your judgement, and fear not following your hearts'  inclinations to give leniency to your fellow citizens when you feel it.  I know y'all do feel like doing that way more often than you ever act upon. I see it, yer eyes can't lie... I had a bench warrant for TRAFFIC TICKETS!, got pulled over for a lack of funds, technically termed Expired Tags, and jailed on the morning of N...

                     I was enjoying dinner with three other friends at The Great Wall Chinese Restaurant, located in Ruidoso New Mexico. At the end of our meal, as the tradition goes, our waiter brought us a plate with eight fortune cookies and laid it in the center of our table. The Great Wall falls on the fancier side of Chinese restaurants, so these fortune cookies were larger and didn't come wrapped in plastic like most others. I held out the plate for each of my friends to pick their first cookie before picking one for myself. The turns began that we read aloud the fortune found inside our cookie, and I went last. Yes, of course, as the fortunes were read, the words 'in bed' had to be added at the end. Tradition, right? Anyway, like I said, I went last, but when I broke open my fortune cookie, there was no fortune inside it.  "Ha ha ha," teased my friend Frank, "your not lucky." "No luck fo yoo." quipped his gal, Ki...

My journey to master the art of self-discovery began around the same time as did the global epi-phenomenom of 'awakening'.  I've been on an awakened path for as long as it takes a person to attain a Ph.D. in college. The blood, sweat, and tears I've paid to gain the understanding I have today has cost more than it would've had I gone back to school for a PhD. (sigh) If only I'd been given the choice. Then again, I don't think I'd trade the enlightenment I've been blessed to receive for what my Grandmother called, an educated idiot.  Oftentimes, the word enlightenment triggers thoughts of an existence with less turmoil, less hardship, and less suffering. However, this is not the transformation that occurs as one becomes 'enlightened'. If anything, these obstacles only become more complex, and it causes a person to resist their new awareness. At its highest level, the person...