We begin because we wish to experience the beginning.

As we take our first cautious steps, we know the moment is right, and we savor it for what it is and have no complaints for what it is not.

We will not reach the end of this journey until we are ready to experience the ending. Between now and then, we will experience the quest with sunlight in our eyes.

This is the way of the universe.

June 2008 - The summer heat wave reminds us that water is a treasure.

May 2008 - Memorial Day offers us a chance to remember, but all to often we only recall more items for your shopping lists.

April 2008 - On All Fools Day, one hopes he is part of this sublime group!

March 2008 - musing: Ah, it's time for pollen again. Even the cats are noticing it and the don't need a calendar or daylight savings time to witness the circle of the year.

February 2008 - musing: There are times when I wonder if those of us who maintain weblogs are confusing writing about something with actually doing something.

January 2008 - musing: In north Georgia where the drought has been severe, we begin the new year wondering about water. Will there be any?

December 2007 musings: Solstice and darkness lit here and there by warm fires and candles, a time of waiting and watching over the seeds that will bring us our dreams.

November 2007 musings: It is, I think, impossive to explore and follow one's myth without a spirit of gratefulness. As W. J. Cameron said, "It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast."

October 2007 musings: Zen teaches us, as John Daido Loori reminds us in his book "Teachings of the Earth," of the interconnectedness of all things. We're seeing this in action in metro Atlanta now as the state's worst drought in history shows us that a lot of people down stream need the same water we're drawing from a shrinking reservoir.

September 2007 musings: I've been thinking a lot about Nancy Whitney Reiter's upcoming book "Unplugged: How to Disconnect and Find Yourself." Odd to mention it here, I know, where our lenses plug us into technology more then ever, but I like the idea of disconnecting from that which doesn't mesh with who I perceive myself to be. (Learn more at www.unplugyourhead.com) Then I'll find the myths that really matter.

Photo of the Tuckaseegee River, Dillsboro, NC, by Barry Campbell

"If you want the whole thing,
the gods will give it to you.
But you must be ready for it."
--Joseph Campbell

"And Moshe de Leon, the author of the 'Zohar,' figured out that knowing ultimate truth and giving yourself to your lover are effectively identical. You move from this World of Separation to the World of Unity by giving yourself away, and once you do that, new life is the reward." -Lawrence Kushner in his novel Kabbalah, a Love Story.

"I say imagination creates reality, and if this premise is true then imagination fulfills itself in what your life becomes."
--Neville Goddard

"There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this 'something' as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation. This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am."
--James Hillman

"The nature of life is to contain both chaos and order."
--Deepak Chopra

"The warrior never picks fruit while it is still green."
--Paulo Coelho

"I am the transforming rose, supported by the stable earth, washed by the everlasting water, nourished by the holy breath, purified by the limitless light, offering myself now as an open channel of attunement."
--The Seer's Prayer, in "The Sun Singer," by Malcolm R. Campbell

"The degree of fulfillment you enjoy at any given point in time depends on the strength of your connection to the Creator--and you yourself are responsible for that connection."
--Michael Berg

"Small hills don't make good mountain climbers."
--Grandfather Elliott in "The Sun Singer"

"We each have a spiritual current that runs through our lives-a river. Connected to that current, our work, our life, has power. I constantly ask myself: What is my relationship to that current? Am I letting it guide me or am I forcing my will upon my life?"
--Roderick MacIver, "Heron Dance" issue 13

(Photo: "Storm over Glacier," by Malcolm R. Campbell, copyright (c) 1964.)