The big "to do" about guns

[NJCher]

9. interesting--I'll give it a shot

Thanks for sharing your epiphany with us.

I don't think I attack myself often, but on occasion I do. Usually for not getting enough work done.

Remember that book from sometime around the 70s? How to Be Your Own Best Friend? I read it. One of the practices I gleaned is that when you attack yourself, ask yourself if you would treat your best friend that way. The answer is almost always no.

The interesting thing about this practice is that it gets you to thinking of yourself as a friend. In that context, it is much easier to just let oneself "be."

A friend sent me this poem from Hugh Prather the other day. It seems appropriate here:

What should I do?

Nothing
Nothing is the thing to do
(Nothing is the only doing)

I am worthwhile just existing
("Just"? - OK, I am worthwhile existing)

What if the stars were to start doing something?
("What are you doing hummingbird?"
"I'm just being a hummingbird"
"Oh, is that all?&quot

As soon as I start doing
I stop being

"I don't understand how you do so little."

(Now that's a compliment)

Hugh Prather (~1972)


Cher