I am at the place in my life where I find myself laughing spontaneously in response to something happening instead of cursing. I see that as progress along the way of maturation. I see it as not taking things as seriously as I did in my youth, and an indication that I am more savvy than I have been, less in a hurry, less troubled by things that don’t actually matter. I wish I had been older younger, because somethings we don’t understand before a certain age–and it is important that we understand them.

The Tao is easier for me to recognize now than it was then. Then I was striving to have my way now. Now I am engaged with the process of how things move slowly in taking shape, and they have to be allowed to do so, because to hurry is to miss what’s what and fail to see what is called for and know what to do about it in the service of what needs to be done, where, when and how–which is all anyone, everyone, ever needs to know.