“What’s more important in determining our life?” 

“The world of facts, the world we can touch?  Or the world as WE HAVE DISTORTED it?  The dangerous, and maybe even mean world, we are responding to in our head?”

Each of us has a chance to grow whatever parts of our world we want to grow.  By paying attention to a piece of our experience, that piece takes up more and more space.  Whatever we waters, grows.

I’m sitting in a restaurant booth, my roving office, and, as usual, the space behind me is filled, emptied, and refilled with more normal customers.

  At least, I guess it’s normal to talk and talk and talk about what’s wrong with the world, what’s wrong with all the people in our world.  But then, what am I doing here?  Being negative about other people being negative.  

Recognizing the negative: 

“Why would anyone . . .?  I can’t stand . . .  What kind of an idiot votes for . . . Don’t they know how stupid . . . What’s wrong with someone who’d . . .  I hate it when . . . I can’t believe anyone’s that . . . Jerk . . . Stupid . . .

I’m watering some positive today.  Growing some grins.     I’m going to be ridiculous.  I’m turning laughing cartwheels (and I mean this in the most metaphorical way).