Remembering Independence Day is not a one-day experience. I wish to remember the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, a cure for Seriousitis™.
A Sunday, after a Saturday July 4th Independence Day, feels like a bonus day. A day with no expectations, an extra day like a leap year, where magic can be accomplished or acknowledged. A true Freedom Day, where creations can be buffed and shined, or attention honed into more fully experiencing independence.
Today carries some mystery, how is it that all our holidays are only one day?
We have the ‘eve’ days, Christmas, and New Years, where we prep or celebrate the ensuing miracle of a gift giving winter rebirth. The day when our year starts again, we stay up late into the night to greet the NEW.
Our Thanksgiving is but a day, as our days for Mother, Father, Valentines, and the ethnic celebrations.
My favorite Holy Day sermons start by asking old questions and finding new ways to look at the questions. Leading to a path of finer attention and a greater sharing of vision. But the true test is does this attention last long into the night and tomorrow? Does it bring a sacred continuity to my being.
Many years ago, my favorite celebrator, Brother Vik, prepared for holidays as soon as the last Holy Days past. He invited us to create a life of celebrations. A way out of our insanity (In-SAME-ity), and boredom by holding a mirror of self-observation, to show us that even though the day is past, the sacred attention is still alive and available each day, week, month, and years. He pinned these words in an on-going celebration of life.
“Perhaps, you like I, having once embarked upon an adventure of self-exploration, now find yourself afloat on an enormous ocean of emotion clinging to nothing more than a tiny craft of self-concern (importance) and can now understand that an expanding awareness floats upon the incredulous brainwaves toward the shores of a beautiful place, where there are many others who share the principal of higher self and wish to flourish in the ambition to live love and oneness.”
We have come together once again to remember our independence. I will use this day and all day’s as viewpoints to honor ourselves and all of Precious Humanity in coming a long, long way to get there together curing our Seriousitis™.
“From a very special moment, from a very special place…”
Independence is not a one-day affair, it is a lifetime achievement.