Mind my own business.  When I mind my own business, life is easy.  I just do what it is my job to do.

Yesterday, I found and lost a "guru", wise teacher all in one day.  I won't mention her by name, but the whole process made me sad until I realized that I have matured to a point where I no longer project my wisdom onto others.  This woman captured me so intensely in her earlier work, and then, when I saw her recent work, I just saw a very bitter, old woman.  However, when I accessed her Facebook page, I saw something a little more gracious, and I realized that the whole experience was a rapid realization that I no longer need gurus, although I'm happy to extend something gentle to them when they get to the end of their fame and become a bit bitter with it all.

The values I live by can be summarized as follows:

Be
Laugh
Love mercy
Accept reality
Trust what arises
Love unconditionally  
 Mind my own business
Play in a friendly universe 
Live in eternal consciousness
Take no offense (It's not personal)

I like the stairstep shape this takes on  :)
Do the next right thing.  One step at a time......

Yesterday I took down my entire blog....deleted 25 posts at a time.  It didn't take me long, and just like that, 4 years of writing was gone, and I don't miss any of it.  As far as I know, I'm the only person who read any of it, and I like that.  The life experiences that gave birth to all that I wrote during the last 4 years are alive and well inside of me, and so, I feel that I have not lost one single thing, and yet, in a strange way, I have gained a tremendous amount by pulling it all back into the recesses of my heart.  It is not personal, nor is it universal.  It just was and is.  Interesting to take words off the page.  I really loved the experience of doing that.  It wasn't really about pulling them back inside of me, actually, it really was more about letting it go, entirely.  Now, I begin anew.  The one piece that I wanted to include in my blog as it is today is my list of values which I will do in a separate post.  I love blogging just for fun.