I love seeing...

I love seeing our very loving family, especially when there is a large gathering of all of us.  They are so much fun… I wish that the ones who weren’t present recently will be there soon for the next one.  Reunions are beautiful.  We all say and do things to make each other smile, laugh, enjoy life and feel loving warmth from people who want us to live a joyous journey.  We help each other, do things for each other, listen to each other’s stories from our separate yet somehow shared experiences, eat food with one another, drink many beverages, inform and enlighten each other, feel for each other, and embrace each other.

We also, inevitably, being humans who make mistakes, sometimes say and do things that make each other unhappy, whether directly, indirectly, or in any other way.  I am human when I do this.  You are human when you do this.  We are human when we do this.  I am learning how to accept criticism and correction for some mistakes I have made, although, sometimes, it’s hard to tell which is the best way to behave and which isn’t, because you don’t always have outside judges to evaluate your performance.  If you have time, you might want to listen to what’s inside and choose to walk up the next step you hope is best.  But sometimes experience can happen fast.  You just go with the flow, and next thing you know, you wonder if you’ve done your best to grow.  When we find ourselves in situations where we must judge in the name of improving quality of life, we must do so with direction toward improvement of as much life as possible, as best we know how, with careful consideration of various viewpoints inevitably intertwined in the instants of infinity.  Judging the actions and merits of others is serious business, so a curious attitude coupled with healthy wonder about and awed awareness of our world is a way for everyone to enhance the exhilaration of experience

You know what it feels like to get excited about something you’ve experienced and want to express what you think you’ve learned to say in the best way, and then learn that you aren’t always saying everything the best way or vetting your best ideas coherently?  Well, we always have a path of improvement, even as we succeed

I am lucky to have and to have had such amazing guides who improve how I treat the world and how the world in turn treats the experience I enjoy.  And I am happy to be a guide for others when I have something useful for them to learn.  And then we smile, laugh, eat, drink, embrace, enjoy and experience with our loving ones, and life is won