Here’s the first thing that caught my eye, back in the hotel in Bellingham Washington, at Crones Counsel 26:

I notice that it also caught Kevin Schipp’s eye:

Here’s the latest X-22 Report, which frames the entire imbroglio as a Trumpian 4-D sting operation. True?

In the Uber Kia early yesterday, heading for the SeaTac airport, I asked Paul the driver if he had ever had a rider that he considered dangerous in his two years as an Uber driver. “NO.” He responded. “Just about everybody has been really nice, even wonderful. It’s why I continue to do this; I have conversations with such interesting people.”  We both remarked on how the nastiness being drummed up and pounded out by the national news, simply does not reflect our own day to day experience.

Consider (the word, “con-sider,” means “to go with the stars”) the machinations of politics,  and how they fascinate us as, at times, a particularly brilliant and/or devious, and/or multilayered game that exercises the left brain as we try (and usually fail, if the game is any good) to figure out whodunit, plus why, when, where, and how. Notice also how such mental machinations ultimately fail to satisfy our authentic needs — for clean air and water, nourishing food, adequate shelter, human and interspecies companionship, exploration and creation of both embodied forms and larger and larger frameworks of meaning — all of these activities heading towards, if we continuously center in attunement to our own soul’s call, ecstatic communion with all that is.