Humanity has mastered your solution for ignorance.

I appreciate this piece. In my experience, stilling my body is necessary before trying to focus my mind.

I am also 80 now. Having similar desires. Unfortunately I didn’t follow it with same intensity as you. Didn’t have your strength of purpose and skill set.
I admire the people you have mentioned. But this leaves me with some doubt. None of these people were anything like a normal, average type of participant in life…more

ultraegographic. Nice.

Great questions. I love "Oxymoronically Speaking."

Wolfstuff, what a beautiful reflection on a lifelong search for meaning. Your journey through different teachings feels both thoughtful and deeply personal. Thank you for sharing it.

If the i is Its subjective expression how could that be? The i must not be Its subjective expression? My expression would be missing from the collective. Thanks for provoking a thought.

My bad for using the pronoun "girl"...looking at your pic [https://medium.com/the-art-of-dying/the-art-of-dying-introduction-667e5e2de20] you a cool looking guy just like me...we both wear glasses but dude I got more hair than you young man! Keep writing and crazy-crows like me will be happy as a pig in shit.

Since you are wolf wolf, I Two Crow am a close relative [I keep the James only to make the IRS happy and the government agency, I am a former NOAA employee, that provides my retirement happy too. We [Athena, Willow and I] are just home from the Spirit of the Wind Sun Dance in Weed CA and a week at Seal Rocks Oregon…more

What a tale, true or not, you have woven on the dangers of falling in love, infatuation or whatever it is that drives us humans to repeat the agony over and over. But it sounds like good research has helped you out a good deal.

Wonderful telling of why my relatives the crows are not considered song birds. While I know and do my best with the purification lodge songs, I too am no song bird! You tale made my heart sing with vibrations beyond words...many thanks!!!

Poetry sings what prose can only theorize.

Ah - but is it right?

This made me think about the distinction between information and understanding. We often assume more information automatically leads to better decisions, but shared context may be the missing piece.

The snow seems to swallow the sound.

Yes, that feels truly magical.

The harder I hold my mind, the more I see its disturbance.

True. And then there is how we handle all this awareness. The life’s journey.

Very cool. I have always had a great appreciation for - but sadly no talent at all for, nor technical understanding of - Music. But in my troglodyte awareness I have always understood that what Shakespeare is to Words, Bach is to Music.

Very nicely wondered. Beauty is easy to confuse with God. Clapton knows about that. God and beauty are really good friends.