Welcome and welcome back. While I am creating I spend less time being grumpy. It’s a blessing that’s easy to accept. Even as I smash these words, I am simply happy to be here. Yesterday I posted the lyrics and back story in text. Thank goodness the sun came up. You might read the reading here: Take some time for your self. Perhaps a one-minute Joy Breath Meditation. Relax. (ha ha). Slow your breathing. Remember several moments of joy you have felt in your life until you can feel the joy as if it’s happening again in this very moment. Blessings to you!
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Monday, March 2, 2026
Addendum . Garden . Audio
Sunday, March 1, 2026
The Garden of Eden is Closed
Welcome and welcome back. While I am creating I spend less time being grumpy. It’s a blessing that’s easy to accept. Even as I smash these words, I am simply happy to be here. The Gulf War started, on my 50th birthday, in March of 2003. I also purchased, maybe that very same day, a gently used Godin SD, solid body, electric guitar. And, since I was feeling a bit musical, and in honor of the war effort, I wrote this tune that month. This piece is one of my very own favorites. &&& Note: Anyway. ______________________________________ The Garden of Eden is Closed (a country western, three chord, two step)* *It’s really in Waltz Time. Main Chorus: sprinkle at will. The Garden of Eden is Closed We’re tighty, we’re mighty, we’re whiter than whitey Verses: Down at the mouth of the Tigris Euphrates, Now Saddam Hussein had put up a fence We bombed them back to Old Purgatory, But God and the devil are playing strip poker (chorus?) Some people say that times like these But it’s people that love and people that die How to get back to the garden of Eden? Last chorus with an honest twist: We’re tighty, we’re mighty, we’re whiter than whitey .... March 2003 Notes: the verse about strip poker in the book reads like this: But God and the devil are playing strip poker Notes 2: I now would trade the top two lines for the bottom two lines. As written … How to get back to the garden of Eden? Edit as of 3/1/2026 When it’s an eye for an eye and Cloud Fishing (and more) https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Fishing-David-L-White/dp/1979915504 https://www.amazon.com/stores/David-L.-White/author/B00J6EY804?&shoppingPortalEnabled=true Take some time for your self. Perhaps a one-minute Joy Breath Meditation. Relax. (ha ha). Slow your breathing. Remember several moments of joy you have felt in your life until you can feel the joy as if it’s happening again in this very moment. Blessings to you!
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Authors and Titles Revised
Welcome and welcome back. While I am creating I spend less time being grumpy. It’s a blessing that’s easy to accept. Even as I smash these words, I am simply happy to be here. She and I tossed a couple titles back and forth and I thought …. Oh yes, I made a list once. Why don’t I share that? As far as I am concerned this information is more valuable than trading vacation trips to whatever enviable places, kitty pictures, or picture of what I had for breakfast. Popping to mind are thoughts on travel by Emerson, Twain, and Bourdain. I will add those particular thoughts elsewhere later. And, briefly for me, travel has more to do with gathering ideas than placing one’s body in different global locations. Dedicated to Donna B from the region I call Out East._________________________________________ AuthorsEmerson, Thoreau, Brautigan*, Krishnamurti,Castaneda, Black Elk, Lame Deer, Trungpa,Suzuki, Alan Watts, Lao Tzu, Tom Robbins,Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, George …Gurdieff, Ouspensky, Bukowski, Kerouac,Yogananda, Osho/Rajneesh, Bly and Bly,Martin Seligman, Russel Edson, Mattieu Ricard,Chopra, Dr. Seuss, Wendell Berry, Kabat-Zinn,Howard Zinn, Wes Nisker, Kubler-Ross,Mary Oliver, Anne Lamott, Annie Dillard,Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg.TitlesAs a Man Thinketh, Emerson’s Selected Essays,Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance;Archery; Making a Living, Siddhartha, Buddha Nature,Dancing Wu Li Masters, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism,Conversations with God, Genesis, Books of the Dead: Egyptian, Tibetan,A Course in Miracles, The Disappearance of the Universe, The Power of Story, Wherever You Go There You Are, Crazy Wisdom, Think, Flow, Happiness, and The Possibility of Everything*** Revised 2018(omg) Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond FearTara Brach - Radical AcceptanceAmy Cuddy - PresenceKelly McGonigal - Yoga for Pain ReliefRobert Lanza - BiocentrismNisargadatta Maharaj - I Am ThatJohann Hari - Lost ConnectionsBessel Van der Kolk - The Body Keeps the ScoreRichard Gordon - Quantum TouchBrené Brown - Braving the Wilderness - and moreJim Loehr, Tony Schwartz - The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time ...Martin Seligman - Flourish & Authentic Happiness - father of positive psychologyRichard Rohr - Falling Upward, a spirituality for the second half of lifeEllen Langer - On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful CreativityByron Katie - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your LifeKen Cohen - The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing…I’d like to thank the Academy, cast and crew, andmom, if you’re out there. Thanks for reading to me.… * I wrote a title Suicide as Mentor for my early favorite poet Richard Brautigan. Take some time for your self. Perhaps a one-minute Joy Breath Meditation. Relax. (ha ha). Slow your breathing. Remember several moments of joy you have felt in your life until you can feel the joy as if it’s happening again in this very moment. Blessings to you!
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