Cleanup San Francisco

Religious and political organizations gradually become fixed and rigid. Life is a constant change, a continual becoming, a ceaseless revolution, and because an organization can never be pliable, it stands in the way of change; it becomes reactionary to protect itself.

The search for Truth is individual, not congregational. To commune with the real there must be aloneness, not isolation – but freedom from all influence and opinion. Organizations of thought inevitably become hindrances to thought. K

Alaska’s capital city of Juneau is urging many residents to evacuate, bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters flowing downstream from a basin dammed by the area’s Mendenhall Glacier, with the event being driven by climate change amid glacial retreat

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

“To experience the eternal, one must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality throughout the cosmos; it is the root criterion of life and spirit whether it is a man, in a building, in a town, or the natural world.”

“The individual is of first importance, not the system; and as long as the individual does not understand the total process of themselves, no system, whether of the left or right, can being order and peace to the world.”

“Success in living with others comes in following community standards, both personally and in business, which were established by elected representatives for the best interests of all.
These allow one to be fully accessible and live truly free. This requires one faces consequences and readjusting our behavior when mistakes, as nothing is perfect. Social intelligence, i.e., care, consideration, respect, discretion, and the like, is necessary on our part. We desire that everyone have a quality living environment, which allow us to realize a rich, whole life for yourself and all living things on earth.”

The biggest problem for San Francisco is smack in front of us. Still, sadly, most do not realize this, though seen around us daily. Most, including the media, are deeply conditioned to our surroundings; we are ignorant about our community standards and codes, complacent, indifferent, and inactive. How else could we allow our neighborhoods, commercial streets, schools, parks and playgrounds, and natural areas to be abused, misused, overused, and vandalized? Why else would we permit this participation and endorsement of various misusers, vandals, self-absorbed greedy businesses, and corrupted politicians and government bureaucrats in its degradation? Our finest government officials and employees have always been dammed if they do and damned if they don't. If a significant minority of us adhered to our codes and regulations established after public hearings and voted by our elected representatives for our collective best interests, we would experience a notable change for the betterment of our quality of existence.

[“No sign shall be placed upon any public street, alley, sidewalk, public plaza, or right-a-way, or in any portion of a transit system. “A permit is required to install, replace, reconstruct, expand, intensify, or relocate any sign unless it is specifically exempted from the regulations."]

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent—it takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Wisdom demands a new orientation toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. For it is no measure of health for one to be well adjusted to a sick municipality.

Looking at my day through sunshine and cloudy day
Finding my problems being cleared away
Enjoying clouds hang in clear blue air
Charming afternoon it is…

Nature is very close here. We’re rich with possibilities