THE SEEKING PEACE AND JOY DICTIONARY — — T — —
T is for....
Tang
Tang....noun
What ever happened to Tang? All kids of a certain age know what Tang is or was... it was the drink that astronauts drank...and most kids knew all the astronauts too. These things were so important for a while and dominated our culture. Someday we may be saying “what’s Microsoft? You see in seeking peace and joy it can be important to remember that no matter how permanent (and sometimes depressing) something might seem it may not last forever and sometimes it just disappears quietly. At times it will be important to notice the fading away of things and just to let them go even if they were greatly traumatic or hurtful. Forgiveness is one of those tricky things that happens when we are able to let significant stuff go the way of Tang.
Teach
Teach...verb
Teaching is one of the most valuable endeavors in the search for peace and joy. Teaching allows you to develop sets of questions designed to build curiosity and to offer building blocks that students can choose from to construct solutions and wisdom. When you reach out to teach something you are sharing the energy of your past and current efforts and saying “hey come walk with me for a minute and we’ll see what we might discover. Teachers offer the chance to learn together. They create environments for safe and interesting experiences and observe that others are working toward developing useful meanings for those experiences. It also seems the more you teach the more you learn and the more you learn the more you have in your teaching toolbox. Yep.. I’m saying if you want to learn more—teach and if you want to teach more—learn. Instead of the vicious cycle of some things teaching creates a riches cycle.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving ....noun and verb
A day to overeat==prepare to overspend—and hopefully be overly aware of all the gifts shared with you by others. Since this particular holiday is coming soon this entry will end here but wait for the podcast on Wednesday .
Transcend
Transcend ....verb
Sometimes we think of seeking peace and joy as a transition from our current state of mind and emotion to a different state. Unfortunately transitions and transactions are exchanges and so often we trade the frying pan for the fire. Just as often we transact which is just reacting instead of really transforming or transcending.
Seeking peace and joy is the processs of elevating awareness, embracing awakenings, encouraging artistry and creativity and growing. These are not transactional activities based upon what someone else does to you. These are not the stuff of an environment impacting you. Transcending is acting upon and rising above the traditional temporary tragedies and changing obstacles into opportunities and “failures” into lessons. Transcending is tapping into your. Glow and sharing it so that others can join with your energy beyond a one to one trade off.
Like the entry said there will be a special “
T” is for
Thanksgiving entry in a couple days so let’s “T” off and get in our U-boats for tomorrow or just unplug for a few hours.
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