And I am also grateful that I have a pretty good handle on what to do with my life and talents. What I do for a living happens to be compatible with what I do with my life. So while my head is pretty spacious inside, the externals of my life need some weeding. I m going to work for a better balance of the material things in my life. As I watch this tendency of mine to accumulate, I will learn more about the reasons for my choices and make more rational decisions.
Awareness is the therapy.
Mike is still peeved that we celebrate a day for St. Patrick, the monk who chased all the snakes out of Ireland. Whether you believe the legend or not, Ireland is one of only 2 places in the world with no native species of snakes. I guess you d have to be a Saint to get away with messing with the ecology that way. When a snake grows, it outgrows its skin and must grow a larger one and shed the old one. Shedding the skin is a wonderful metaphor for the necessity of dropping the old ways of seeing and doing things to be able to grow.