cue the music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgmyVLheqkQ
https://youtu.be/jhdFe3evXpk
so yesterday, looking for the oven i enrolled my mom's best friend, she's around 70 years old and very likeable australian lady...........her daughter Karen has cancer and is getting to the point where she can't walk....... so that's tough for her and her grandkids, Karen's kids........ and Karen obviously........ we went the wrong way at first so ended up driving through Llandilo a bit which has always been a very rural farm area adjacent to the built up suburbia..... i had a elementary school debate there one time at the local school, everyone lives on a farm...... i mean shoot, i think i saw Karen with a 'jerry can' (used to carry and sniff petrol) at like my mom's 'wake', so maybe she's damaged her health like that, i don't know
the ancient chinese philosopher lao tzu wrote very profound things about something he called the 'dao' which is loosely translated as the 'way'.......... in christianity i suppose there's a straight and narrow path proverbially referred to as 'the straight and narrow'..... maybe they are the same thing, who knows?...... but i definitely enjoy my mom's best friend's company and also seeing her family also from time to time..... also i make myself useful to them sorting out their lawn clutter sometimes, etc, they're the only people i really marked my mom's passing away in a friendly way with, also nondescript..... i understand the tensions within their own family dynamics somewhat..... i mentioned to Marlene it's quite an amazing coincidence that some of the folks from the church i attend (in the upscale part of town not far from my crib) are building a church in Brewarrina (very small and remote place, faraway) which is Marlene's hometown and she's aware of the church they're building and commented it's great as we rode through Llandilo............. that's an incredible co-incidence, maybe that's the 'dao', not sure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewarrina%2C_New_South_Wales
there's members of this church that know folks from my last church in auburn also which is anglican, unlike this church, so that's another pretty big co-incidence, i'd say that's the 'dao', yes.... another church i was bringing my kids to was the Presbyterian church in western sydney...... again, found through the 'dao' i would say..... my mother and brother were somewhat secretive in their doings towards me (common in my family with everyone amongst eachother, horrible) and so never told me they were attending this particular church, however i was at Sutton Forest, about an hour or so south of sydney at a mcdonald's play area at the highway rest stop gas station there and a gentleman began conversation with me which took a churchie kind of bent and it turned out his best buddy was the preacher there at Tregear Presbyterian so i took note of it and ended up visiting at one point at which point i realized it was practically a secret door into an aspect of my brother and mother's relationships (post and probably pre-death of jose senior) that i wasn't aware of......... there was even a lady at that church that used to take care of me when i was like two year old kid and my mom got a break from her beloved socialist health care system nsw health and was able to offload me onto that lady like that....... she had a very strong memory of me and said i used to get quite excited when her son would be coming back from school, i think i stayed with her for a few weeks when i was around two years old but can't remember. At least my mom didn't just dump me on her daughters, that's good. I wouldn't go back to that church after my mom passed away because the people would strike me as two faced.......... anyway i never had a high opinion of them to begin with, neither would most people in australia as many look down on mt druitt people as too white trashy. I was attending this church with my kids on sundays (as their mother always worked sundays) concurrently to the one in auburn (alternating although not exactly evenly but in a more or less balanced way notwithstanding)........ i definitely remember attending this church when my brother passed away almost four years ago now........ one of the preachers was friends with my brother and he ended up passing away two years or so later from cancer....... i saw his wife who attended our housewarming party in mt colah (with said hubby) after we moved into our million dollar house (now worth over a million american thank you global economy) just a few weeks ago at the big shopping centre in Plumpton (aptly named as white trashy people often plump, like me!) and just pretended i never saw her (not because i'm jealous of her figure, although i might be) but because i did not want to go into the can of worms of talking about my mother, after she'd passed away, with her...... if she'd noticed me she would probably have been glad as not a big fan of my mother either who was an absolute royal pain in the ass if nothing else........
funny movie clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC4Q0EQuqIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B821Hteo-5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyjWZoKaH_o (nice glasses hotshot, maybe we'll get some seamen to fire them out of a submarine and ascertain knots leaping (launch speed), just sayin')
will help a family out today at a nearby extremely upscale area, with their garden..... $50 per hour..... a real contrast from my mom's best friend Marlene's garden
the ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches their return....
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
The way of nature is unchanging.
Knowing constancy is insight.
Not knowing constancy leads to disaster.
Knowing constancy, the mind is open.
With an open mind, you will be openhearted.
Being openhearted, you will act royally.
Being royal, you will attain the divine.
Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao.
Being at one with the Tao is eternal.
And though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.
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