Well, here we are. It’s the last Wednesday of March, and today is my 52nd post. That’s right. I’ve officially been a Wednesday blogger for one year. I was inspired to write about “Assumptions” this week thanks to a rude, anonymous note that was left on my car (ironic that I was trying to be nice and got called a “Jackass,” isn’t it?), but then I remembered my friend Mark. Mark Neher is a talented local author, an intense and luminous teacher, and he’s my friend. Mark pointed out to me that everything is round (even wrote a book with the same title). He’s right, you know, everything is round. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, people come in and out of our lives. We have good times, bad times, and good times again. I thought it fitting that since this is Blog Post #52, my year has circled back to the beginning, that this post should be his.
And so, my reader, I offer you his words. Mark is eccentric and his lessons aren’t always straight forward, but by forcing me to pause, to actually listen to what he’s saying, my understanding is so much deeper, fuller, and… rounder.
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“Is it Possible to Love Everyone?”
Most of us are taught to love God above all others, and ourselves if we don’t have a god to believe in. After that our conscience tells us to honor our parents, which becomes easier once we have children.
We have childhood friends, lifelong friends, and new-found friends. Friends of both gender, letters sent back to sender, grandchildren, and ex-lovers. Is it possible to love everyone?
It is, but it is a full time job and the only pay is forgiveness and hugs. What do you do about the buggers and the thugs or faces in the news? How can you love the hateful until you learn to sing the blues?
It takes blue and yellow to make green. What starts out as primary becomes secondary, but it isn’t less because it is further from your center. Actually, just like the Milky Way, the farther your energy and love move through time and space then the speed in which you have practiced for– grants you a star for your effort. Then you are close and yet light years from perfect. Just shiny and giddy.
Today for the seventeenth time at 17 different homes, I sought out my new neighbors. I’ve been blessed with hope and light powered by my pain. And I can see beauty when it is across the street. These people already love me because I love first. Now the boys have a straight backboard and baskets are more fun to make. They wonder who the hell I am, but they know that I’m not fake. They admit they should read more. I give them my book.
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I used to be an asshole and worked as one for years. Once I knew a mop handle was the feature of my fears. I forgive, I trust, and most of all, I teach.
I love everyone, am disappointed by a few close to me, and all the ones with violence on the big balls they swing on the never ending pendulum. I guess I would wonder if you can’t love everyone how everyone would get along.
It is a choice and I am choosey
Agape is the Greek for brotherly love. Eros I’ll save for later.
The Word made the bird
So he started with doves
Peace is a pillow
Dreams from above
Love thy neighbor as yourself
And if you don’t love yourself
Many do.
It is possible to love everyone, but you need a strong stomach.
While you feed the world and skip dinner.