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I have a book to suggest .Its a two volume set called " MYTH, LEGEND,AND CUSTOM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT".Its by Theodor H Gaster with sections of James Frazer's book on the subject included.It speaks to the elemental nature of myth's and legends that surprisingly can be found in cultures far from each other in time and place.The publisher of this one is Peter Smith.Anyway all this is a little lead in because in my efforts to be glib which have been horrifyingly unsuccessful,I sometimes think about what I was writing after word's and I have a more serious idea.The importance of the elemental in living a contented life.What I wrote recently speaks of my imagination and some other things but I can't leave it because it was a shitty glib comment on a subjevt that is usually treated with a pithy response for a reason.Or whatever.Effervescence? Joy is that, true......;But, something enduring in our lives that one can feel confident in is what so many people express a desire to " have" and " be ".So I want to just remove me from the writing here and make a clear distinction between the superficial ideas I expressed previously and something reasonable.Let's just pretend its not me writing this.Does this question resonate with someone on that basis?I have faith in people already having all the answer's they need.I assume that it is every person's birth right to have and be, so the idea of authority in one's personal life resides in ones self.I also think people are sort of easily pushed by the various complex ways human beings interact and get along with each other.It seems obvious that we coerce each other in all sorts of ways but not always obvious as to when and how or for what reason.So I think its a reasonable thing to say that some people are inadvertently coerced in to thinking they don't have an answer.Some people consider the effervescent nature of something to be a liability and I am no exception at times.I want to be clear that I'm addressing whomever is reading this based on my experience and my own observations of life.That's how it's helpful to have to consider that someone is reading this.I am one and another's experience is their's and it forces one to be considerate of another regardless.The reality of different points of view for me is that they promote equality and validation in and of themselves,but not for the sake of feeling them.That's for the couch.When I recall running at the beach when I was 6 years old ,watching my shadow in the rushing ocean water and icy clear sparkle of the sun through a watery see through sheet......Those moments of happiness are the same today as they were then.What's obvious to me is what I wasn't thinking then or considering.I really feel certain that these moments happen to us all the time but its easy to miss during troubled times when its needed most.The elemental way one became good at what one does generally in life,seems like a good example.How did it happen? By the employment of elemental growth which takes a little time and clear effort.If you choose to learn a musical instrument and you practice modestly every day after six weeks you feel this confidence.Meditation for 20 minutes a day everyday for thirty days does it to along with surfing,cooking,hiking,making a fire,making love,roller blading ,reading music learning a language, making love,watching movies,waiting for your food,making love as well as reading to people in a hospital.In fact the time I spent doing so called " social work" mostly included helping people fill out their housing applications which I hated but found fulfilling because I have some practice at it and it was helpful to someone else.I would have been living in westbeth on bethune street many times over if I didn't mind filling out applications.Some people have a type of presence that is very healing to other people on a one on one.So A person with their own particular flavor of self will be appreciated helping just because they are practiced in being and knowing themselves.Yes, the world has use for people who have an open heart and an open mind with a smile on their face.All of these require sincerity only.Playing a tambourine should not be left out.People can become elemental for whatever you do.People require great patience because clear observation,self honesty and trust are what gives me confidence in someone.All this just to write that I believe in living a contented life through the one step at a time approach of building ones life through the application of elemental blocks.Elemental building blocks for living a contented and relatively free life are individual and similar.Energy,honesty and things to do with reasonable commitments seem to make up the similarities.