Best wishes to all for Thanksgiving. I’ll be in St. Joe MI with the extended fam. <\/p>\n
I’d list all the people for whom I’m grateful this time around, but I could never get them … all of you … in. Family, friends new and old, work, neighbors, leaders, and people who I’ve never met in person. Anyone who makes the world a slightly more positive and interesting place. All the folks who have been incredibly kind and generous with me. All that, plus the world as a whole. <\/p>\n
I remain constant in my belief that I’m one of the most fortunate people I’ve ever met. For that, I’m deeply grateful.<\/p>\n
And now, my daily Tao reading turned up this gem:<\/p>\n
When the Tao is lost, there is goodness. Best wishes to all for Thanksgiving. I’ll be in St. Joe MI with the extended fam. <\/p>\n I’d list all the people for whom I’m grateful this time around, but I could never get them … all of you … in. Family, friends new and old, work, neighbors, leaders, and people who I’ve never met . . . → Read More: Thanks, and a little thought from the Tao<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhen goodness is lost, there is morality.
\nWhen morality is lost, there is ritual.
\nRitual is the spent husk of faith,
\nand the seed of chaos.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"