THE SEEKING PEACE AND JOY DICTIONARY. C.
C IS FOR
CARING —
Caring is, of course, another one of those gerunds . You know an action word taking the role of a noun. Caring is the first step in so many efforts to seek peace and joy. In order to think about moving or changing from where one is caring must come first. The lucky thing is caring can be for oneself or for someone else and it still becomes a step in the right direction and it doesn’t have to be a this or that or zero sum thing. You seer caring. Of any sort is the enemy of apathy. If twe had a big box of “emotional lego” it would be great to have a lot of blocks labeled caring in it. The cool part about caring is that caring shared is often caring returned so much like negative emotions and actions caring often creates a chain reaction of caring. On the other hand when seeking peace and joy we often think that peace is an exercise in avoiding conflict. In order to avoid conflict we (as in I) will sometimes resort to saying I don’t care about one thing or another. However, the thing is if I really didn’t care there would be no conflict to begin with so if you don’t care you usually are completely unaware of something. for example I don’t care about the average length of time. It takes for 19 people to brush their teeth. Now that I’m thinking about that. I saw a commercial for a Bluetooth. Equipped. Toothbrush. No kidding...you connect this. With your smart phone and it tracks your brushing . Now I’m not sure this is necessary or even advisable as it means we probably will have our phone near the sink and toilet and most phones can’t swim.
This entry could go on forever—which true caring can do when it is passed along, however, there’s a lot more of the alphabet to traverse so we’ll wrap this up with a mantra we can use in seeking. Peace and joy and using caring to do so.
Become Aware—Dare to Care—Share Here and there and everywhere.
Connect
We live in a world where we have realized the power of connection for our machines (see above to notice your toothbrush may be connected to your iPhone and tell it you need more Colgate soon.). Your insurance company is probably connected to your pharmacy which is connected to your doctor who is connected with big pharma and they are connected to your congress person’s wallet. This brings me to a short humorous interlude.
A robber approaches a man is a suit in Washington D.C. The thief says to the well-dressed man...”Give me all your money.” The “victim” says ..... “IHow dare you rob me...I’m a member of congress.” The robber tilts his head and replies...”In that. Case give me all my money.” anyway back to connection.
Seeking Peace and Joy almost always means engaging in change and this is rarely a solo activity (see the butterfly effect). In other words in order for change to happen or for anyone to pursue. A purpose that reflects. One’s beliefs it takes the efforts of more than one person. so after connecting with. Your gifts and their uses , the next step is finding others who share those. Beliefs or similar purposes. the thing to note about connection is that it is not likely that any one person will connect with any other person on everything at all levels because if that were the case there would be some cloning going on. the important. Point. Here is that we can connect with a lot of people on one level and a few people on many. Levels. Like caring—connection is a sharing of energy and you will use some every time you connect with someone and you are likely to get some back. Like caring the energy flow is not an exact. Science. The exchange rate fluctuates. Like the price of books on Amazon.
Social media is a “connections cafeteria where you can pick and choose a lot of things like how many connections you will make, the strength of those connections etc. You can find out how and where your comfort zone works and experience the with it a bit. While social media can be a learning lab, it is probably worth noting that. The people you connect with are called different things on social media and these labels matter. Some of my good friends and some of my best friends are on facebook and facebook calls some of the others friends where I would. Call them “people I’d accept free beer from” if they had such a category. LinkedIn calls people. “Connections,” however, infers these folks are “professional” connections. Well I won’t share quotes from the Buddha or Carlin with some of those folks so I’d rather stick with friends. Now Twitter.... calls your. “Connections” followers....Followers? Really? Sometimes. It seems. Like this is an invitation for “I hope you like me” behavior. that seems to put the personal responsibility of seeking peace and joy in the hands of someone else and rewards on this platform seem to be all about image and ego rather than real sharing... Shouting not sharing .
There will be more about connection in the “networking”. Entry.
Crayons
This is a noun. Crayons usually C R A Y O L A BRANDare a set of tools that are underused by most adults. You ever notice that. Drawings done in crayon are very expressive yet simple. Often when I am reading something long and complex I. Wonder what this. Would look like if we had a rule that all official. Correspondence and contracts had to be written in crayon? First of all it might be more fun to fill out insurance forms in aquamarine or sky blue. Of course you might have just as much fun filling out medical history in pink or sunflower —if you. Had access to the 64 oak with the sharpener built in the box. D. Of course the world.would be just fine with only the jumbo sized eight color box. The thinks about thinking about peace. And joy in te3rms of. Crayons is that not every color. Has to be our favorite and still we don’t discount the value of. A color and don’t get all bent out of shape if someone likes fubrick red a little more than purple. Imagine if politics were a box of crayons..... maybe it would be okay if we had more than two and tried to convince everyone that it was okay rather than to force all kids to pick one color and draw the world in that color. Oh and imagine that we don’t have. To judge crayons. By their color... we don’t have to assume lime green ones are lazy and orange ones are better at doing math....
So to sum up... seeking peace and.joy is made easier by thinking in terms of crayons. You can find a lot of ways to explore creativity. You don’t have to judge people for making other choices. They encourage you to keep simple things simple. Everyone can have their own box, yet they are relatively easy to share.
Creativity
Creativity is a noun.... It is the process of viewing and building something in a new or inventive way. It is the reframing and representing ideas in a way that is inspiring to the creator and to the audience even if it’s an audience of aone. Creativity is part of the experimenting actins are necessary for hope and change. One of the tricky parts about creativity is. The act of experiencing someone else’s creativity. We may truly not like what someone is creating and yet we have the choice to shut others down and discourage them from creating or. We can encourage the creative process without connecting with the producgt. for example, opera singers show and refle3ct a great deal of musical creativity and I admire it. On the other hand I’d rather listen to a cat getting sucked into a vacuum cleaner for an hour than listen to opera for more than 10 seconds.
In short, creativity is at the heart of change and seeking peace and joy means changing experiences and the ways we view and think about them. Exploring the creative efforts of others and. Doing creative stuff on our own is a springboard in the process of seeking peace and joy... In fact I’ve often thought that instead of “seeking” peace and joy. This blog should have been called. “Creating Peace and Joy because peace and joy is something. We work at creating not something we hunt down.....
Well ... there are countless more “C” words that might be highlighted and yet I’ve “c”o sun Ed enough of your time and attention for one sitting... so I’ll be. “D”—lighted to be back next time with the Divine. Letter. D
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