The Block

Often the word achieve can be placed in for success. Where I’m from, the focus of success is everything. From a job to a career to a set of ideas on family and friends and cloths and food and.... the list goes on for days.
At random times my 5 year old will remind me of what I teach him- “ know when enough is enough” and most times he pipes that - he’s right. When we achieve and acomplish things do we give it the credit that it’s due? I remember when my focus was a bit different I would complete something, then just fly to the next objective because I didn’t make the time , have the time or just really didn’t think about it. Today I remind us - and myself - when done with something, stop and be done - rejoice for your accomplishments - drink and toast and dance and sing and be happy - rather than just somber on to some larger day - have many smaller days of joy rather than just one ! Wink! Heck , share one with some one !
May the Force we share - seek- serve - be with y’all this week.

As David Bowie says - just ... dance!

The Dance

Do you dance? How and what do you dance to? Is dancing an important part or any ... of your modern day Jedi ism? Is there different ways to dance ?

Close to my love we sway. Some days dancing helps stop a lot of grrr and frustration for us.
Some days I’m so excited, me and Kevin Bacon get our feet loose!
Some days I meditate and sway and enjoy the sun, or the wind or even the rain.
I dance in the rain. Alone or with my loves. ( my 5 year old boy)

So today the question is - do you dance Jedi? Do Jedi dance? Do these (you guys ) type of modern day Jedi cut a rug? Do ya groove?
I look forward to your responses!
If ya don’t ... try it out .
Force be with y’all!

Yes I love dance,

I used to dance a contemporary dance and ballet in dance school InDance
Latter I get into selective dance group the PopBalet, there was increased a dance lessons
Which also contained a ballet lessons. Twice participated a dance internship > Dance without limits.
Altogether I danced 9 years.
But I had to interupt visiting a dance course,
because nowadays I have ahead of final school leaving exam. So I have to learn.

Concurrently I still dance a ballet at home, because it miss me so much.
But it isn´t same wonderful experience like, when you are inside the dance school,
where is the large dance spaces with many mirrors. And peoples, whose dance with you.
So there is cumulate a great current of energy and you are part of it. < one dance choreography = one being at the same time.

I am looking forward to the graduate, because after that I would like go to dance internship Dance without limits and again continue
to dancing in dance school.
> Sometimes I let abduct myself > I dance on music and creating a random choreography < which I forget at the moment - I do it,
but there is more important to let flow the music and movement together. It´s absolutely freedom and happiness for me.
I recommend to you!

Is here anyone who dance too, don't hesitate and please write your experiences.
Dance movement with you

When I’m happy I salsa and jump or freestyle myself. With others I waltz which to me is the easiest and funnest . I’m


Or some times I just get down and throw my hands in the air some times and say - heyyyy yo !

I like dancing . There’s a very real connection when ya do with others too.

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Ever miss one thing and realize now your gunna be behind for a bit? My sons has these dominos - actually they are wooden planks in the shape of dominos with no numbers on them. After so much planning and setting up the ever moment can come when accidentally or through no fault of our own or even because of us our stack begins to fall. Most times I wanna
Yell -“ Dang it “and watch them all tumble down.

I was at Fort Bliss for some time and during my stay there, at the “mall” there was a man who sold hand made glass items. Beautiful colors and melted do dads made a very fragile type of art. His specialty was roses. No joke and every soldier there some how some way had one or a few of his works in their homes.
So, I would see him over a butane torch melting things every now and then at the mall and it happened one day I accidentally hit the cart he had and dropped a figurine. Crash! Broken pieces of a alligator slid and flew every where. It was his reaction that I’ll never forget ... with his protective glasses on he said - ohh one of the properties of glass is it easily breaks... that’s what makes it so beautiful. He scooped all the glass into a small box and said don’t worry friend - I melt glass, I do it for a living and - I’m good at it ! We both smiled and went our way.
How we stack or how we do or even what we do- can some days become out of sync or even shattered beyond belief some days - life is full. How we react can make the difference between catching up or staying behind. Our focus can also play a key role like my friend at the PX - so today is Tuesday- not Monday ... yet here we are ! Let’s remember life happens- when undone or out of schedule what do we do? Can we be vigilant or do we let it take all our focus?
Happy seeking Jedi and as always - May the Force be with y’all this week!

There’s a saying by Winston Churchill said somthing that sticks with me in my Jedi path - “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw rocks at every dog that barks.”
I guess the same can be said about a modern day Jedi “The journey we take can be kept often by the words we use to free - the difference is not what we use but in the application of intent and how often we “swing at the dark.”

How many times in my life I just argued. Just to get my point across as right. Just to make the point -“ I’m right!” Back then it seems all to easy to just chalk it up to beginners trail and error but now not so much. Now I find myself the go between or even the peace keeper. Odd for me- a step out of my own element. I’m a fighter ! Bring it on I say. Some times ... there’s really no need for a fight ( for me anyway) . Some days it’s more of a bettermoption to continue and DONT stop -even if you will win... - even if your right - some days there’s no need . Oh , that I would live in a world where it wasn’t fight some one was so freely than to give rather than peace or a hand to help. Well if it’s gunna be let it begin with ... me. Can it be we? Something to think about. Not every one is that same and I know - I count on it actually now a days but if we all just tried ... imagine what trying at the next level could create ? Force be with y’all!

There are always more to things that meets the eye. There are always more sides to things than we think. Motives - actions - ways - things - we some times can’t see. Life is funny like that. In this light - some days we may never see the whole picture or even all the contributing factors. There may be times when we do and those moments are so nice but in reality and in ceartain settings, we must understand this or - be unbalanced often. Upset is often un balance. Why don’t I know everything or see everything that has brought this moment here....
This is one of life’s most frustrating things - not being able to know everything and not having the answers we would like. There’s a old saying “ grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Somtjimg to think about THIS week.
May the Force continue to be with y’all as we all seek it .

Nice!!

To help make it less frustrating for myself, I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and keep aware of patterns, Keeping the door ajar to new ideas and experiences, while having a filter for those things that do not serve the True Will.
I find as I meditate and trust the universe and strive for the light and the force, the frustration fades away, in it's place it's new experiences, and just people with different opinions, all wanting the same thing inside! Love, or a release from fear!

Tetrahedron wrote: To help make it less frustrating for myself, I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and keep aware of patterns, Keeping the door ajar to new ideas and experiences, while having a filter for those things that do not serve the True Will.
I find as I meditate and trust the universe and strive for the light and the force, the frustration fades away, in it's place it's new experiences, and just people with different opinions, all wanting the same thing inside! Love, or a release from fear!

My whole life I have been learning this.
I’ll be balancing that till the day I glow blue. At the same time it does my heart good to know - I may not be the only one .

Thank you Carlos. One of the biggest things I’ve found in my life is that it requires precarious balance. I’ve always been a glutton and closed myself off from the world because I dislike people as a whole. My time here has taught me that it is my own failures, my own shortcomings, the judgements and prejudices that I’ve made about people created a world around me that I dislike and get annoyed with. I’ve let a few people ruin the beauty of the whole. It is here that I’ve found that balancing point. I have to look past myself with open eyes and an open heart to really see the world and all the beautiful people in it.

You are welcome friend. For me - I’m the beginning that was me - I severed everything about me and the world just nahhh... now a few years into it I’m able to display a few more ideals and ways I’ve kept out in the open. It’s kinna like a higher learning thing - we segregate and learn then we apply and learn what we learned and un learn what we don’t need. Finding ones center is a huge step for any Modern day Jeddist and a step forward as far as conserned. Learn then ... apply ... learn then apply - kinna like the old wax on.... then wax off.

The physical - the spiritual - the mental - exists in ever type of path, from the less organized most recent attempt to the the most archaic idea and every one in between. These three ideas exist in us and we often see them in different values and in different balances. ( we ARE a sight for those who didn’t understand )
Our fifth Teaching says -“ Jedi understand the well being consist in the physical, the mental, and the spiritual. A Jedi trains each to ensure they remain capable of performing their duty’s to the best of their ability’s. All these are INTERCONNECTED and essential parts of our training in becoming more harmonious with the Force.”
Here - we don’t ever tell you “WHAT” to do - never , we don’t tell you what to be or choose but we tell you and remind as well as share wins and losses.
We say - yes learn - go learn
We say - yes ask questions - go ask questions
We say - yes to almost everything you can think of. These three essential ideas we definitely say yes to. Practice your spirituality and ask around .... change it keep it - adjust - if need be - do this for all three - hone them - master them - practice them - make them- share them- write them down , pass them- what ever your choice - but yes - yes please do ! Have - a - balance. If you don’t make some time to begin trying ! You won’t regret it ! Somthing to think about for the week-

How would you say the spiritual and the mental are different?

Each of us have a discernment and a definition. I can only answer for myself.
To me , spiritual of faith based. Mental is more fact based than faith. To me the spiritual is my practice of faiths togeather - that mix of connections I call on any time I need. To my practice, the spiritual is what do I practice and how and to what lengths do I go to display it. What books I read - why- where I put my heart ... things like that. The mental of the things I usually take into count the thinking parts - the explanations and such. Stars - planets - how planes work - why-

What’s your active difference?

I thought of this in a weird way but bare with me........My spirituality is searching for the silence in a song. What I mean is this listen to a song, any song and you will hear inevitably at least one point where there is an emptiness, entirely void of noise. In most songs it is what makes the song a song. So, my spirituality is trying to see these in my song, to understand this timing. To make my song better for anyone that hears even one second of it. Hoping that it can help others make their song sound sweet to them.

I was watching a “oldie” with my wife last night -“ We are no angels” Denero
And Penn 1989
There is a moment when one main character is called upon - unknowingly to give a sermon on the spot for the big procession they are having. In it - Sean Penn the convict on the run and in hiding gives a off the cuff message about faith.
If ya got time google it or watch it.

Is it enough just to HAVE faith ? That’s ok too!
Something to think about friends !