Start, Wage, Loving: For Joy Serve Soul In Solidarity

To my sister trapped in the American Israeli torture black site called Gaza Palestine. This sister who follows the Journey of this vehicle through beautiful California Countryside she will never see in all likelihood. My life is not happy. Thank creator. Even a moment of happiness makes me want to throw up. In a world rolling and such mystery to be happy? To be happy in a world rolling in such misery is to be spiritually dead. I much prefer physical death to spiritual death. Pretty much always have. No credit to me. To my sister in Palestine. But I am incredibly blessed to be called to immerse in what beauty there is left in the world and to try and channel that goodness outward. And it gives me joy and great pain to share it with you. My heart breaks with the torment and torture being visited on my sisters and brothers in Palestine everyday. It makes my heart break. I have gladly gone in great physical pain to Deaths door in hunger strike in Washington DC to try and make the torment of Palestine stop. To my horror what this taught me is that I could not stop it in that way. I much preferred the idea of paying my life in that way to stop the torture. And it horrifies me to share these pictures of the beauty everyday to you who are in the American Israeli prison called Palestine. But I will continue because it is the best way I know to serve creation, to channel what little goodness left there is into the world. Your loving brother forever no matter what, James

6.16.2018

In the end what is moral is what enough people courageously paid the price to say is moral.

6.15.2018

I don't remember ever being concerned about dying. I've always been concerned to be living. I recommend it. Serving from the soul in solidarity the neediest.

6.14.2018

Imagine a hospital where the staff gave the good rooms to all who were not sick, but strong, and gave the Dank basement to the most critically needy. That is Americans with respect to all our resources.

Imagine a hospital where the staff gave the good rooms to all who were not sick, but strong, and gave the Dank basement to the most critically needy. That is Americans with respect to all our resources.

6.12.2018

Why the f* are people still having children? Is there no end to the cruelty? To the selfishness? Get a f**** dog. Adopt!

Why the f*** are people still having children? Is there no end to the cruelty? To the selfishness? Get a f****** dog. Adopt!

Pretty frequently world events bring the Russell Crowe version of Noah to mind. That God's instructions to Noah was to preserve every species except for humans. I think this is right.

The only joyful, the only sustainable, purpose of life ever has been to help the least of these our fellow creatures.

6.10.2018

To several friends who are suffering terribly. With much less Affliction James was suffering terribly through chemo and major painful cancer treatment cancer surgeries not too many years ago. After several months he had a conversation with himself like this below, and his suffering reduced gigantically. And....

To several friends who are suffering terribly. With much less Affliction James was suffering terribly through chemo and major painful cancer treatment cancer surgeries not too many years ago. After several months he had a conversation with himself like this below, and his suffering reduced gigantically. And.... when he suffers with the world's ills today he has similar conversations with himself..... James, you are going through a tremendous amount right now and I can see you're suffering a lot. I have a very strong sense that some of that suffering cannot be avoided but that if you make the choice you can avoid much of it, maybe most of it. I would atleast like to tell you what I mean so that you can make the choice. The physical impulses that your body in your situation are pouring down on you are unavailable, but how you react to them, how much attention you give to them and how much attention you devote elsewhere might be pretty significantly under your control. Oh, I don't mean it is as simple as just redirect your attention. I'm not sure anyone can do that and I'm not sure that you can. But I do think there's an answer that results in the same thing that's a little bit more specific. What I suggest you consider is that you become more aware of when your attention is understandablly going to your personal suffering. Don't feel bad about it, there's no use in that. But increase your awareness of it. And when you become aware that understandablly you are focusing your attention on your personal suffering, see if you wouldn't prefer the idea of focusing your attention and your energies no matter how abstractly, in the direction of someone you care about who's suffering even more than you. James, I know you care about the people in Palestine. Maybe when you become aware of your attention going to yourself you will decide to make the choice to focus some of that energy instead on those in Palestine who are suffering more than you. And just as you would respond to your own suffering, try and respond to theirs. Even if just on Facebook posting, commenting, reposting from your heart. Maybe study their situation a little bit more. Maybe do some planning to try and imagine how you could try and be more helpful to them. This is an example. The point is to find some population or populations that your heart can really really care about and direct your heart for them. To some degree it is likely that that will pull you from your own pain into the joy of trying to help them. And James, also remember the times when you have been suffering, and you had the wisdom to bring into your mind the face, even to make eye contact, of a Jesus carrying the cross, or a Palestinian child heroically suffering in an Israeli prison. And how almost immediately doing so placed your own suffering in it's pitiful little context, not in a way that shamed you, but that in a way that gave you tremendous immediate and sustained relief. And made you smile.