THE SEEKING PEACE AND JOY DICTIONARY — — Q — —
Q is for ....
Oh wait—we might just want to notice the very valuable. “U”—-yes. You or U are valuable or ewes are valuable or however you’d like to say or spell it—:).
Q is fun to write in cursive which reminds me there needs to be a post on learning to write cursive.... Yet how often.do we see any words Q without U? If the alphabet made sense wouldn’t u come right after.U? If you are teaching someone to read or spell in alphabetical order Q is pretty much just hanging around waiting for U to become a real player. Anyway a quick salute to U —Q’s partner in a lot of high “quality” words some of which we’ll see quite quickly.
Q is for....
Quagmire
Quagmire... noun
Quagmire... a sticky wicket, a mess that is complicated and full of mystery. So many times we start seeking peace and joy due to the notion that our life or our current situation is a sticky mess and we don’t quite know how we got there and where we are. We are not sure what we are really dealing with and that my friends means you and I find ourselves in a classic quagmire. The cool thing about quagmires is that if we breathe and sort out one thing it often breaks the spell of the quagmire and the quagmire becomes a series of adventures, trials, and solutions. It is often easier to spot. Someone else’s quagmires than your own and thus it is possible to throw someone.a rope or a solution that helps someone through a quagmire. Have I written quagmire enough? I really like writing the word and the sound of it... I think it will have to become. A song lyric soon.
Question
Question ...noun and verb
The question is the tool of the curios. To be curious is to approach experience in a learning and not a fearful mode. Seeking peace and joy is the process of experiencing reality and creating meanings and these meanings are the answers to give to the questions you have. It has been said often, but not often enough that there are no important answers. Unles we ask important questions. It is an interesting life if the questions you are answering somehow balance with the answers you are questioning. The great east question for a musician is how do I connect these sounds and words with the reality I experience and. Want to express/. For the writer it’s how do I offer a story full of words to do the same thing. In oreder to attempt this we all put the unknown out there and start chipping away with questions much like the sculptor chips away at the big block of stone to reveal what is in iit.
In seeking peace and joy most people are tempted to start with “why” type of questions and forget that there are.who, what , when , and how tools in the box.. We also often forget the most important question...why not?
Questions... is a topic that needs a whole week of posts so for now...can we move ahead?
Quiet
Quiet ...verb
In seeking peace and joy it is sometimes valuable to halt, take a breath, and quiet your mind. Some folks do this through prayer and some through meditation. Others use music and some use dance etc. A lot of people use gardening. And yard work. Some people use drinking or other substance to attempt to quiet themselves. Just now I felt the need to quiet my body and get over some pain. I did this with breathing . Now I am no guru, yet life has taught me that focusing on breath makes it more possible. To shift attention to something other than pain. If you are a parent you know that you have tried to shift the focus of your. Kid from something at the store to something in your purse or pocket. Anyway becoming quiet allows for a reset and a going back to a solid state. Oh and being quiet... well it allows you to do one of the greatest things in all human. Nature. If you are quiet you can
LISTEN!!!!
With listening you can connect more fully with others and your surroundings. Quiet is the place you connect with the universe...If two of the best “quiet” activities are meditation. And prayer then it must be valuable. It seems reasonable to me that being quiet allows both and that prayer is making your visions clear to God/The Univers and asking questions, while meditation is listening for the answers back.
Quiz
Quotes
Quotes...nouns
Seeking peace and joy can’t be summarized in a simple quote, and yet quotations can be a platform to stand on to see what others are telling us about a whole bunch of situations that have been. Happening in the course of lives both now and in the past. It can be interesting to see what quotes get attributed to folks. If Einstein actually said all the things people have said he did it’s not clear how he would have. Had time to come up with any complicated theory. So many of the quotes we remember were not penned by the folks. Who get credit. Quotes can capture a lot of wisdom like when Abraham Lincoln said “... I’ll have that tall hat there. In the corner...”. Oh you don’t think he ever said that... Well the pope at one time in history must have said...yep that cool pointed hat is djust the thing that people will. Need to see me wearing to think I’m. The leader of the church. On earth.... Oh why didn’t these catch on? They didn’t have meaning for others. You see in seeking peace and joy we put together meanings and if we express these meanings in words we may want to use quotes that already have some meaning for others. On the other hand we may choose not to piggyback our meanings on the quotes of others. The value in picking out quotes to use is in the paying attention to the impact they have on the listener and bingo... quotes are not about the speaker..they are about the listener and caring about the lisatener.... so maybe seeking peace and joy has much to do about the people we are connected to or those we wish to connect with?
Well... to paraphrase that great philosopher Marx or Marks as in Groucho...
I’ve had a great morning writing this blog.... but this wasn’t it...
R you ready for tomorrow? R U?
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