I wonder what it would be like to be a child of the world. How can I be a child of the world when I am a child of Pat and Mary Longley? Think about this for a minute, if you will. If I am a child of Pat and Mary Longley then I am their possession and the quality of my life is more or less their responsibility. If I am a child of the universe it is so much less limiting. What about you? Are you a child of your parents or child of the universe. The implications are vast. If you are a child of your parents then when you die they will put you in a little box and that will be the end of it. If you are a child of the universe the potential is  limitless. Free to create, free to use all the resources available to you, free to break the shackles of early religion, and the limiting messages of your family. It is not the purpose of this blog to develop ideas but to put them down on paper to see and read and look at or throw away. I took my mother’s place as the family critic and I did a wonderful job because I can see fault with everyone and everything around me. It makes no difference if that criticism is sought because it is there anyway. I watched a ballgame the other day and a couple of people stood beside me and started criticizing the players and I had the distinct feeling that neither of them had actually played much softball. People have an opinion on about everything. I certainly do and I would so much like to lose that tendency. Imagine the heaven you could live in if every negative trait did not jump up and hit you in the face. Limiting self beliefs, what a concept. It has been around for centuries and yet we still have a sense of limits for both the world and ourselves. Is this not the time to consider ways to expand those limits? Challenge that belief system and see what happens. Challenge, not criticism, is an interesting concept. Can you learn new things? Can a person my age learned to rollerblade? Can I learn a new language? Or more simply can I learn a new way of looking at the world and my role in it?

I decided to start a club called free spirits unite.  If you want to join let me know, I wont at the meetings though because free spirits don’t join groups.

Keep the Faith

david

Today I like the word frothy. It just has kind of a special ring to me today and I really don’t know why, heck, I’m not even sure I know what frothy is but I think it’s that stuff that comes out of the top of the cooking pot when you’re boiling something faster than it needs to be boiled. I don’t do whipped cream because I don’t do dairy but I wonder if whipped cream can be described as frothy and I could look up frothy in a dictionary and that might shed some light on the word frothy but then I’m not the type of person who needs to know what he’s talking about because if I know what I’m talking about that should seem sufficient because if I looked up frothy in the dictionary it might mean foam, foaming saliva caused by disease or great excitement or my favorite definition which is  light, trifling, or worthless talk, ideas, etc. so given this last definition, how many people do you know that engage in frothy conversation? Now I don’t know about you but I could make categorical lists of people that make frothy conversation and I would generalize that people who talk about politics, religion, the economy, and similar stuff can be categorized as frothy talkers because I don’t remember anyone who has ever said anything about these topics that has ever made sense to me therefore they are engaging in frothy conversation according to the gospel of David.

Peace brothers and sisters,

David