GOTO-HEALTH

Yesterday, I had lunch with Ruth, sharing a crab dip at Palisades restaurant on Seattle’s waterfront. She grew up in a fundamental Christian environment like me. Neither Ruth nor I currently attend church regularly. So, I immediately felt free to share that I still pray, regularly, like I did as a child to an “entity in the sky”, but I went on to explain that my current path is to define that entity, assuming that as a human I am not capable of actually knowing. 

 

Ruth, wearing a pair of funky glasses, explained that she enjoyed getting together because, at age 87, I stay in the learning mode. We agreed that we are avoiding conversations with people who talk about their latest ailments. We also congratulated ourselves in being drug free and not on any prescriptive medications. 

 

There is an author named Reza Aslan. In his book titled GOD, he writes in his second chapter that each of us need to find our own definition of GOD. Aslan also assumes there are no two definitions that are alike, as humans.

 

I felt comfortable for Ruth and I to talk about politics. I have always thought about wanting to appreciate both left and right thinking. Sam and I chose to each register in the opposite party, when that was a requirement in Washington State. We now live in an environment where most of people I meet feel free to express themselves and do so. My goal is to keep learning and be comfortable with individuals who make me feel I have to believe and protest as they do - on both sides and in the middle.

 

I want “connections” and conversations, but I also need to learn to not react to areas of differences in the conversations.