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Start with "I don't know" Most of the times I have gotten myself into deep trouble have begun with a thought. A thought or belief of which I was absolutely convinced - and a thought or belief that in reality was 100% wrong. It could have started with my parents. God knows they thought they knew considerably more than they did. Or it could have started with my Sunday School teachers. They certainly asserted as fact so many things that in truth were fiction. It could have started with my hometown. A city considered by many to be the buckle of the Bible Belt was very skilled in half-truths and some-truths. Certainly, a hundred year history of slavery and then another hundred of Jim Crow laws (all perpetrated and sustained by "good Christian Folks") offers vast opportunity for denial, deception and all around distrust. Obviously, the answer to "where does my tendency towards knowing/not knowing begin?" - well the answer to the question...

The path of the Sage is called "The Path of Illumination" He who gives himself to this path is like a block of wood that gives itself to the chisel— Cut by cut it is honed to perfection Excerpt From: Tzu, Lao. "Tao Te Ching." Jeremy P. Tarcher/penguin, 2008-01-10. iBooks. Check out this book on the iBooks Store: https://itun.es/us/07W0L.l Often it feels like life is akin to wilderness wandering. Unexpected setbacks or unwanted illness can shatter our fragile sense of equilibrium. After almost four weeks with bronchitis, I again reminded of that fragility. But, upon further reflection, I recall similar times past where the scenario presented. And, eventually, I saw the good that could be gleaned from the bad. And, although clearly no sage myself, I still aspire to it. I am hoping that the combination of age and persistence will somehow result in something like wisdom. And if not wisdom, then at least my own measure of awareness, acce...