Cruising the Stratosphere

My father (retired) works as an installer for my sister Vickie's Custom Blind Company. Every now and again for the past 3 months or so I will occassionally help him out on a few jobs here and there. Working with him is a very pleasurable, eyeopening insight into where (or from whom) I came from.
Working with my dad is a real joy for me. It's that special kind of Special that money could never come close to touching: PRICELESS. Like many, I didn't have him around growing up, but that's okay. I have never held that against him, even though it was really hard for me because as I have grown into an adult I figured that it must have been that way for a reason. That 'reason' I have never really tried to put a face to, but I have always known that Love was the Answer to that riddle no matter what the technicalities or legistics were 40 years ago.
When I was 29 I decided to go for it. The reality doesn't change if no one makes a move--so I did, and I am So Deeply Happy and at Peace that I did. It is fathoms beyond the written word. .... So I wrote my dad and asked if he would like to get to know one another. I also set out from the start that I didn't want anything from him save to get to know him and perhaps his friendship if it was two way. He agreed....That was 13 years ago. We have been getting to know one another since that time. Yeah, it was slightly awkward at first, but only slightly. That quickly gave way to a friendship that has been fun, honest, and more than anything Familiar and Real.
Spending time with him more and more has been like being with a twin aspect of myself. A part of yourself that you hadn't seen for a long time, but that you knew really well. That's how it feels, and it just continues to go deeper and broader. Astounding..... Sometimes you don't know what you've been without until you have it. The hole and the void that was there.....You just had no........idea.
This is someone that gets your humor --no explanation needed. This is someone that your inner processes and ways came from. There is a native understanding of you--priceless--because of this. You intuit each other's responses like 'nobody's business'.
Astounding. Incredible. Beautiful.
Once you love your parents, you see a higher intelligence at work in these things. ...When you love for love's sake, not a barter. No business arrangement. Love for Free. Isn't that what it IS....?
Getting to know my father is a Living Blessing
A Bloom that has no age
The more you look the further it goes
From dusk to twilight to dusk again
Timeless
Thank You God
Looking into your Eyes I See You Looking
Into Me Looking Into You

It's also quitessential Austin! It's such a good representation of the diversity of people that live and work here. Unlike other locales it's active all day long because of the location and mix of businesses in the area. There are young and old. Seniors are hanging out reading the paper. College students are surfing the web or studying. Business folk are taking a coffee break. All of us are sitting around here at Joe's Coffee listening to classic Joni Mitchell being wirelessly piped out to the patio mounted speakers. It's a cool, breezy afternoon in between the rainy sprinkle sessions of the day.
The sun peeks out to say hello and splash the theatre of the street in it's colorfilled glory as the wind tossels my hair playfully and delivers it's message of peace and hope for the people and generations to come. All is well. blessings. blessings. blessings.

Fear is the non-acceptance of What Is.

Fear is the non-acceptance of What Is.

I found this story on Posterous of a man from Japan who was bored with working at his father's AC factory and decided to bike around Europe for a time. Check out this post about it on Posterous. There's a link to this gentleman's blog if you're interested in keeping up with his reports on a regular basis. : http://holykaw.alltop.com/one-bike-8-years-28000-miles-37-countries-2

Fear is the non-acceptance of What Is.

Everything Interconnected.
The Web, evidence of an All Permeating Higher Order: Ordered Intelligence.
Looking close chaos appears the landlord.
Stepping back a Symphony of Perfection is revealed. The is no desire to change one note or trill in this Divine Aria.
Getting too close one gets burned in the personal fires of ego, caught in the duality That Is. Like quicksand, the renouncing of it strengthens it further. The struggle, the fight, the furor only sinks one further in the mire.
Gratitude and Blessings are the way out. Blessing the turmoil, seeing the Divinity in pain.
See the Divine Working in the small.
Give Thanks to the shadow.
See the Oneness, the Unified Field that contains All Movement.
Let the Mind take a backseat.
Observe the Dualism. No judgment.

When separation Unifies within, then there is Only One.
In Bliss there is only One. There is no separation.
In Bliss you are neither 'here' nor 'there'. 'You' are not location specific, for you are 'nowhere'. You are on the Earth. You are 1,000 miles above it. You are pulsing with the Heart of It's Core.
The flowers bloom because of this.
Kids laugh because of this.
Stars shine because of this.
Generations go on because of this.
Avatars and Masters come because of this.

The Bliss of Oneness