Attending the Days - blog

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I'll drop occasional reflections on presence, absurdity, values, and the small daily acts that carry meaning.

Life moves fast. These essays don’t. This is where I pause, consider, and post the occasional thought – quietly, and never on a schedule. They move in their own eigenzeit – unhurried and alive in motion. 

Attending the Days began as a simple attempt to meet life more fully – with attention, honesty, and a little humor. I write for those who sense there's more to notice, more to live, and more to love in the ordinary rhythm of our days.

The Principles

Each post explores core themes like consciousness, impermanence, absurdity, cultivating your way, and present-moment living offering clarity, presence, and ways toward meaning. Each theme moves through three steady principles informed by Stoic practice and colored with Taoist aesthetic:

1. Perception (contact):  the pulse of awareness that frames experience, shaping how world and psyche meet. What we notice—and how we notice—defines the quality of our encounter with reality; it marks the difference between seeing the world and meeting it. Through perception, reality recognizes its own patterning in motion: awareness touches itself through us.
2. Aware Action (form):  the movement that carries awareness into form—the gesture joins being and doing, presence and service;  through it, meaning is experienced as participation itself. Every choice extends perception into the world, expressing what we understand, however imperfectly, through the texture of our living. Action lets perception breathe; it gives shape to what insight begins. 
3. Attunement (participation):   our self-correcting return that tunes perception and action to what matters most, keeping life in key with integrity and meaning. Attunement listens inward and outward at once, drawing us back into nature’s values and opening us to fuller participation with what seeks to live through us.

Perception receives, Action responds, Attunement restores: together they spiral through one another as an embodied process of potential. 

To live through these principles is to sense the world as process — a field of relationships through which experience unfolds and returns. When we inhabit them consciously, we touch the primacy of relationship: the living reciprocity where Consciousness understands itself through our participation.

Nature's Values

Within that field, three movements recur like the bassline of existence, the quiet currents flowing beneath everything:

• Resonance: existence vibrating in relationship, where patterns answer patterns and meaning arises in the betweenness. Each note finds its shape through tension.
• Harmony:  the confluence of opposites where difference generates unity through movement. Harmony listens through tension the way day listens into night — a joining that deepens both. 
• Generosity: nature’s intrinsic givingness — purpose moving from within, potential offered without demand, the quiet abundance that sustains becoming.
   

The essays here draw from both: the principles that shape our participation, and the values that let us feel nature's underlying music. The music that allows us to receive, reflect, release our way with becoming.  

An Open Score

These essays offer no blueprint for arrival and promise no certainty. They offer company—colored with imperfection—and a gentle nudge toward introspective reflection. Think of shared sheet music: a few suggested notes, plenty of open page. An open score where emptiness carries possibility across the measures, and muddled threads of interconnectedness hum together into life and meaning. 

The betweenness of things: the gap between neurons where meaning sparks, the pause between heartbeats where life unfolds, the space between self and other where love arises. 

Mostly, this space invites daily moments to sing with resonance, stretch toward harmony, and rest in generosity. A way of tuning the ordinary, unremarkable bits of our lives into something quietly meaningful. This is all we really have, anyway.

If you're wonder-laden, thoughtful, occasionally overwhelmed, and still drawn to depth — you’re in the right space.