Right Livelihood

The New Year's resolution testing is in full swing and I am in my Xmas wonderings about work ... eager to return to the field ... a respectable employer checklist in hand. The Buddha's admonition for right livelihood will weigh increasingly heavy in these upcoming times of financial hardship for the North American class moyen. Can people be compassionate, and collaborate on mitigating the enormous suffering which is immient?

The snowshoe hills around our house in rural LaPêche are a good place for such ponderings. Much as we Canadians lament snow the undisturbed white hillsides create a powerful mantra - crunch crunch puff puff fly fly.

Full moon at 2227 .... the sunset hunt for exploding skies is about to start.