Wayne Moses Burke

Life is so simple, until you live it.

Well, that’s the question I’m trying to answer and here’s the progress:

As I told you before, I think I over did it on my first day. The second day I wore my new glasses for an hour and even that was pushing it, so I back off for awhile – I think my eyes were strained by the first day and really need to recover, so I gave them time until they felt okay again.

More on Can I see?

Chris said yesterday (I’m paraphrasing):

“We need to stop trying to be, and just spend our time being.”

Well, here’s the first update on the experiment. It felt good at first, but I went too far. I wore the new glasses for about 2 1/2 hours, and methinks it was way too much. That’s when the headaches became pretty darn strong, and I had to ‘take a break’ and nap. More on Rough day.

I’m doing something crazy. Is that news? Perhaps not, but here’s the plan:

I just ordered new glasses from an online seller. Infathomably, they were $19 (plus shipping). To keep it interesting, I ordered them with a weaker prescription than I probably should have to work on improving my sight and hopefully do away with my glasses altogether over time. Is this a good idea? Tell me what you think. More on Better vision.

Nothing is ever finished. Really. You can pretend, “oh, phew… I got that done!” but come on! The world revolves around change. Everything is changing and will continue to do so – that’s how it works. You don’t so much finish as get it close enough – for now. Then, maybe you get back to it and maybe you don’t.

I know what you’re going to say:

“What about {insert something that gets completed – like making dinner}?”

And I have to respond:

You’re right. I’ve exaggerated the effects of everything changes. Sorry. Let me re-define.

All meaningful pursuits are ever-changing. Like this business plan I’m working on for my nonprofit – it won’t ever really be done! I will always learn more and the environment that I’m working in will change, and the expectations of the people I’m providing a solution for, etc…

How about relationships or creating a better life for yourself? What was it John Lennon said?

“Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.”

Yeah. It all keeps changing, so I’m giving up on the completion and going to move it into a format that is ever-evolving and easy to change. You know, a wiki or Google Doc or something – then the whole history is captured so that I can go back and retrieve what I thought I wouldn’t need but now realize that I do.

Anyway, ’nuff babbling – ciao.

This is the big debate in my head.

You see, I’m working on something – the beginning of this nonprofit that I’m setting up. And the potential ramifications of it are, well, staggering.

Or maybe I just think that ’cause it’s my baby. More on Arrogance or Vision?

I know – it sounds a little woo-woo (new agey, if you will), but listen for a minute. A dear friend of mine sent me a link to some audio files from the website of a couple of Buddhist teachers in New York City who did a series of teachings on this subject – and frankly, it’s fantastic. More on Spiritual Partnerships?

And so it goes. . . life, that is – ever evolving and changing.

This is perfectly descriptive of my current state of affairs. As you may know, I came to DC looking for work in the field of US foreign policy, but apparently that was not to be!

I have taken to jokingly saying that I’m no good at finding a job and so I’ve given up. The truth of the matter is that I’m much more comfortable being entrepreneurial than trying to convince someone to allow me to work towards their vision of how the world should be. Consequently, I’m setting off to do just that!

I’m in the process of forming a nonprofit organization and am terribly excited about it. The first project will solve both sides of a large problem in our country – communication between elected officials and their constituents. How will I do this, you may wonder? Stay tuned and it will all become clear.

See you in the back alleyways of the InterTubes!

What is this crazy thing called love?

No. Seriously. What is that about? We all talk about it and want it and chase after it, but what is it? What is it really? Bear with me, I’ve been working on this… More on Love.