Category: Meditations

“It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”
–Blaise Pascal

Would you prefer for everything to turn out to be certain or uncertain?

In the airport, you must go through security, presenting ID, taking off your shoes, having your belongings x-rayed and your body scanned. Although the security procedure is presented as keeping you safe, in reality the point is to keep other people safe from you.

How might you be a threat to the security of others?

Sure, when you’re all piled together with your littermates you might not be able to breathe so well when your nose gets buried, and the elbow in  your ribs is not the most comfortable thing in the world, but isn’t it worth it?

What discomfort are you willing to put up with in order to be close with loved ones?

 “Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness…. The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing.”

–Charles Dickens

What do you like best about summer?

Hang onto the saddle, grip with your legs and your feet and anything else you can muster. Sometimes the ride is bumpy enough that you just need to grit your teeth and hold on as best you can, knowing that the bucking can’t go on forever.

When the ride gets really rough, what do you hold on to?