Too busy to blog?

I am beginning to suspect with all the competition from Facebook etc Blogger is finally winding down, with fewer people writing and apparently even fewer reading what the last of us who do write. As there is a counter that seems to be more than a suspicion but as long as it is above zero will keep turning up.

I've been too busy to get on the computer for a week or so besides uploading my photos, the long days allow longer trips and takes hours to map reference every one before adding to the site. We've also had to return to my late grandma's to clear the final tut out before it's sale, and they now want the garden done despite it being empty for nearly two years. Not a reasonable request, our gardener just gave up and I can't do it as it's like clearing a forest. It's a shame Roger doesn't still read here as like all weather even mine changes sooner or later, and started seeing more friends again after the first ever barren period in nearly 50 years. As people aren't sheep (unless they believe in global warming) you can't simply corrall them to your life when the old flock has broken up, they are more like cats in they come and go as they please and choose who they associate with. Everyone reading needed patience.

I have more arrangements for the next few days with photo trips either side planned, and is pretty good to be able to see the places I haven't seen for years now I'm getting out and about more again. We all discover sooner or later nothing lasts for ever, whether it be people, abilities or anything else. Impermanence, as Buddha said, and we can only do what we can now and not get attached to anything lasting. Like comments on your blog I suppose...

Dropping the baggage

I'm free, no real jobs to to for the rest of the day or other ideas, maybe I'm being guided here again.
I have certainly established now about enlightenment, you can teach others if you know how, even if you're not enlightened yourself. I wouldn't volunteer it but if people ask I appear to have learnt enough of the answers to help. Maybe it's even a way to get there myself and do tell people I'm not either.
I hope anything I do say here whatever the source is useful. There's a lot of unnecessary work going on around, people caring and worrying about stuff that just doesn't matter. Self esteem and personal competition are two big ones for a start, and I've been shown no cause on earth is worth caring about even if you carry on working for it as it's not our personal problem. We can take an interest and do anything we want to help, but certainly no need to care about the issue as probably half the world will never be how we want it, but if we never existed or died today it would still be exactly the same.

So let go of everything you don't need to care about. Everything will still get done the same but you won't be emotionally attached to it. You can't change a lot outside but can change yourself inside, and when that's getting better you see everything outside as better. There will still be dog turds in the street, crooks on TV lying to us and annoying friends and family, but you won't be so bothered. And don't stop at the small stuff, work your way through until there's nothing left. I may not be enlightened but when I was told about this it was so easy and happened straight away for the first area it applied to. If this clears the energy for higher consciousness all the better, it certainly can't hurt. And this advice works for everyone, there are no exceptions- it's part of Buddhism as well as anything recent.