Hi John!

Do You Love Your Inner Child?

How does one continue to grow up into a better wisdom and health and maturity...

and yet one can still hear their inner child with all their confusion, bewilderment, and need for love?

I'm going to get real vulnerable about this with you in a minute.

But first...

DAD JOKE OF THE WEEK

I encouraged my wife to embrace her mistakes.

So she hugged me.

CARTOON OF THE WEEK

REMOVE YOUR BUT
I had a lot of fun with this one. I keep throwing this idea out there that love in its truest form is unconditional. It drives some people absolutely bonkers. 
I like the nuance of this cartoon, because they're going to remove his "but" but "but" sounds a lot like "butt". And then the Holy Ghost has those scissors.

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POST OF THE WEEK

WOW!

I didn't expect this graphic to do as well as it did.

It confirms to me yet again that most people respond positively to vulnerability.

Ya, one guy said that the second me needed therapy.

So, being vulnerable, I told him that the first me AND the second me was already in therapy thank you very much.

Thanks so much my friends for your beautiful support.

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK

To those who think people who are deconstructing are stupid...

This one delivered a lot of laughs, and I'm so happy about that.

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ORIGINAL PAINTING OF THE WEEK

"I Will Fly Til I Find You" is an Original Acrylic and Ink on Canvas

There is only ONE of this original painting.

I love crows. They're always around my house. I feel a deep kinship with them. It's one thing to know we are all connected... that all things are reconciled into one big All. It's another thing to feel it. It helps to remember that we are stronger together. It also helps to remember that when one rises, we may all rise.

This crow, like you and me, is looking for the manifestation of this kind of connection. Longing for relationship. Longing for love.

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DO YOU STILL LOVE YOUR INNER CHILD?

This kind of reminds me a bit of last week's letter where I explored the relationship between spiritual maturity and how it doesn't always guarantee a total healthy life.

In other words, you could be spiritually advanced and also an asshole.

I think one reason is because people who are spiritually advanced lose touch with the material.

Like my mom used to say, "So heavenly minded they're no earthly good"!

Is there something to that?

So... I've been listening to my heart lately. To my inner child too. And it's very weird to me.

On the one hand, I might be reading Krishnamurti or David Bohm or Carlo Rovelli or Meister Eckhart or Thomas Merton, writing deep thoughts in my journal, and all the while appreciate and enjoy a state of peace of mind.

Meanwhile, my inner child cries out in jealousy or anger or lust or fear or whatever... something seemingly totally incongruent with where my mind is... and it throws me for a loop.

I've come to the conclusion that even the most spiritually advanced should wrestle with their psychological selves too.

Just so they avoid falling into that traps where their spiritual awareness blinds them to their material selves... their physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, and social (etcetera) selves.

I think it's unhealthy to dismiss and neglect our spiritual selves.

I'm also beginning to see that it's just as unhealthy to dismiss and neglect our material selves.

Do you know what I mean?

I hope I'm not being too unclear.

Thanks for listening.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Have you ever read a book that when you were finished you felt sad because you were afraid you would never read such a good book again? This was Sarah Polley's new book, "Run Towards the Danger"... her memoir. So so so good!

Here's one quote that hit me hard because I've felt exactly this:

"Almost everyone's family manages to make them feel like a failure, and it is in this context that I imagine the sweet glory of them being proven wrong and acknowledging it, which is, of course, a pipe dream."

Darn. I have felt this.

A FINAL NOTE

You're still HERE?!

Thank you.

I do appreciate you reading my letters. I write them with YOU in mind.

I do hope you have a good long Easter weekend... whether you celebrate or acknowledge Easter or not... and if you do whether it's based on an historical event or a profound mythological theme...

In any case, I love you very much and am thankful you are in my life.

David

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