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Challenge

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how do you know
what it is
about the challenge
you face
or where it is located
on the circular path
of the hero’s journey
you are obviously on
a vision quest
always harder
than the one before
probably because
it is the very same one
you’ve already been through
over and over again
never recognizing
the plan
set in motion
from before you were born
was created by you
your benevolent guide
to help you to find
precisely what it is
you want yourself
to know

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March 14, 2015 at 7:08 am

Late

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March 6, 2015 at 7:00 am

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Repost: Weeks

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I did an impromptu search of the archives and found something from the first month I started this daily regimen of posting to Relative Something (about 6 years ago) which reflects my recent thinking about days flying by leading to months flying by. Here it is again, in case anyone else is freaked out that we are in the 3rd month of the year already:

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Written by johnwhays

March 2, 2015 at 7:00 am

Sleep

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early morning light
rattles gently against the window
asking to get inside
despite not needing permission
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darkness glides blithely away
until later that very same day
entirely unconcerned
there’s no alternative decision
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each fulfill their role on demand
for infinite weeks without end
and sleep just ignores the both of them
rolling right over because it can

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February 26, 2015 at 7:00 am

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Power

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Power

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February 22, 2015 at 9:51 am

Fresh

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Fresh

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February 17, 2015 at 7:00 am

Dreaming

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Dreaming

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February 13, 2015 at 7:00 am

Hours

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Hours

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February 9, 2015 at 7:00 am

Consciousness Streamed

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Never mind that there is no reason not to keep on going despite the obvious restrictions and hesitations that never cease to exist in every manifestation of whatever reality this is at the moment that is surging past unless it’s not and instead is totally stationary and we are the ones doing the moving at such high rates of speed that it becomes difficult to discern what has already happened and what hasn’t actually happened yet in the way we currently perceive things that happen based on the senses that we have relied on to get us here thus far in our lives as measured against the backdrop of the climate as we knew it from the past fifty-some years which someday might be compared with the next fifty as a way of detecting the possibility of there being a difference as in change which would be undeniable one would hope at that point in the proceedings especially since this stream of basically unconscious rambling seems to appear about once every year maybe as a way to scour the surface of residual order in hopes of restoring some reset of rote writing routine repeated in a cycle of day after day wording that tries to make sense regardless the random missing word or unintelligible thought splayed out in broad daylight for all the world to see in the rare situation they just happen to do and willingly hang on till the end with some morsel of curiosity or macabre fascination that there will be some pot of gold at the end of this rainbow of brilliance that reaches in an arc across the screen from one point to another with shapes to decode the message therein however frightening and disturbing the exercise may be but unless some magic or miracle arrives all we’re left with is what we had on when we walked in here plus the thoughts that we carry inside of our heads that we believe must be precious because they haven’t been forgotten and lost for forever like the ones that are gone which we’ll never remember and we live with that fact because we’ve no other choice and speaking of choice that’s something we do have when it comes to this thing called love which when all else has failed is one thing that remains and in this stream unconscious where very little makes any sense love might be an answer worth considering to solve what it is that is bothering your distressed countenance.

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Written by johnwhays

February 6, 2015 at 7:00 am

Looks

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Looks

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Written by johnwhays

February 3, 2015 at 7:00 am