The problem with public transportation is that it is accessible to the general public. Like the middle-age woman sitting behind me on Friday while I was riding the bus home. While her constant muttering was distracting, it paled in comparison to her sudden bursts of violent coughing. Coughing that spewed noxious fumes of gut-fermented garlic into the air shared by fellow passengers.
Concerns over possible viral infection wilted in the onslaught of an herbal assault guaranteed to knock out any germ with greater efficiency than anything offered by modern medicine. I may never eat escargot in garlic butter again.
This past week I had the pleasure of riding the bus home after work. Lynda was using the car due to her late shift at work. While the week ended with the attack of Stinky Rose, it began with the misguided transit worker. He forgot his route!
Right after entering the on ramp to Whoop-Up Drive heading west, he realized he was supposed to go downtown first. And then what do you do? You can’t back up to Scenic Drive and traffic is building up. So, it’s down the hill, across the river, up the other side, around the loop, back down the hill, across the river, back up the other side and finally downtown, to pick up four people, then proceed back down the hill, across the river, up the other side, and running 15 minutes behind schedule!
OK, so maybe there is more wrong with public transit than the public accessibility!
2010: Begin Again - Adventures in The Quest
It’s rolling through the first month of the new year and while things aren’t 100 per cent on track, I’m pretty happy with the way it’s all shaping up. Met up with Darren for a review of the first chapter of The Quest; the spiritual exploration based on Unity teachings. We evolve with time. I’d begun The Quest some years ago with a small group, but when the group broke up, I put it aside. 2010: Begin Again; so I’ve picked it up and Darren and I are going through it.
This timing is right now. I knew that as soon as I checked out the first chapter; “You can begin again . . . and again . . . and again.” It fit perfectly with my current life theme of ‘2010: Begin Again.’
Towards the end of the chapter is a sentence that gets to the heart of Unity teaching. It’s a philosophy that addresses spiritual reality for me . . . maybe not for you; after all you are on your own path.
I do think, though, that if you strip away all of the dogma and baggage of organized religion, the majority of faith practices share a common thread. It’s a thread that has become lost in the tapestry of rituals and traditions that we’ve woven into a myriad of different religious practices.
The sentence gets to the heart of 2010: Begin Again by addressing change . . . and that’s what it’s all about.
“Where does change begin? It begins first of all with the realization that you are worthwhile, that you are not separated from God, that you are a part of God, not apart from God.”
If we could just get to the point where we acknowledged and honoured the spark of the Divine within each of us, I think the world could be a better place.
The Personal Revolution. You can start to change your life at any time you wish!
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