A CLEAR CONSCIENCE FOR BEST RESULTS

Examples of a clear conscience from the Cambridge English Dictionary, because it’s good to start in the same lane.

 

• I’m finding it hard to continue to drive a gas-powered car with a clear conscience.

• These desserts are great for people watching their weight as you can eat them with a clear conscience.

• It’s just no longer realistic for us to expect ultra-cheap food and at the same time enjoy clear consciences.

 

Huh?

Let’s try some examples from the David Dictionary:

“I find it hard to drive a hybrid-powered car with a clear conscience, but I’m working on it.”

“I still can’t gorge on these calorie counting desserts with a clear conscience.”

“Why isn’t ultra-cheap food realistic? What is ultra-cheap food?”

I asked Reddit.

 

The Look

Anyone who spends time around kids for more than a few hours a year knows this to be true:

They tune into a different reality than you’re used to, and you need to keep up.

Once you get to know each other they get an occasional look on their face, the same look the dog gets when you put your shoes on by the front door.

The dog look says:

‘You know I’m going with you. There’s no reason I won’t be going with you. Now pick up the leash, put it around your wrist, and I’ll walk you out.’

The kid look says:

‘You know you’re going to make a pillow fort. You’ve done it before. Now pull the low table over, lay the three paneled pad over the table top and couch with the last panel as the front wall. Let’s go, baby. Daddy Coyote doesn’t have all day. Imma count to ten.’

 

Now, before you make a blind leap, no one knows what someone is thinking, but we can make a guess, and that guess comes from where?

Googling ‘subconscious.’

‘the part of your mind that notices and remembers information when you are not actively trying to do so, and influences your behavior even though you do not realize it:’

My take?

If you associate negative feelings toward an activity, you may have had a negative experience with that activity in the past.

If you didn’t know, now you know. Pick the right time to get over it and clear things up.

 

Living The Clear Conscience Life

As a Folk Blogger I go out, gather experiences, then sit down at a keyboard and go.

No, I’m not surrounded by lovely nude models in my studio for inspiration.

I’ve never promised to make anyone famous, a legend, or a myth.

I see things, do things, feel things, and let it all cook.

I’m not forcing anyone to go further than they’re willing to go, not interested in anyone’s breaking point, and find no joy in another’s pain.

What’s that make me, an angel?

Or someone who has gone further than they were willing to go, found the breaking point, and experienced a particular kind of pain.

From a recent boomerpdx post:

 

Here’s what I figure the Knight Cancer Institute is up to: timing.

They want to cut the number of patients getting over-medicated at for-profit cancer clinics.

They want to educate patients about targeted therapies and precision medicine.

If I had gone with three chemos and a chemo pump, based on my experience with one chemo, I would have had a poor outcome.

Would the cure be worse than the condition?

You might feel like death warmed over, you might look like death warmed over, but there’s a certain confidence you get on the way down the chemo-drain at a Knight clinic.

From doctor recruitment, to research, the clinical application, you know you’ll make it back.

You’ll regain your health and vitality and look back in happy gratitude for making the right decision on the second opinion.

With an extra $2 billion in the account, more people will find their way back from the nightmare of, “Yes, the results have some back. Please sit down.”

 

Behind The Door

What’s the secret to a clear conscience?

Learn as much as you can and apply it regularly.

I started my life’s work in writing the last time I left Oregon for good.

I burned the forests I grew up with into my memory, along with the beaches and sand dunes.

(Maybe burned is the wrong metaphor?)

Like the first time I left for good, I came back. Why?

Because the parts I liked about everywhere else I could find in Oregon.

I’m betting you feel the same way about where you live: it checks many of the boxes for a happy life.

If you live in what seems like a boring town, start digging up things that interest you.

Go to the library and ask for city maps; go the thrift stores and vintage shops and see what is circulating.

Who has been a generous city father; who’s been a villain?

Start sooner than later because things change, and sometimes it’s for good.

 

The Game Changer

Take a look at this picture. I’ll tell you what it is, but first take a guess.

It’s about six feet tall, six feet deep, and looks like it belongs in a nuclear reactor.

Maybe the insides of a jet engine?

You can tell by the cords and plugs that it takes a lot of power.

To do what? Give up?

Back when cancer tried to kill me I did normal things during the treatment phase, like look around.

The radiation room looked like the deck from Star Trek with the table near the back wall, the table where you voluntarily lay down like Frankenstein and get a jolt of electrical radiation.

Me: What kind of machine generates radiation?

Tech: You want to take a look?

Me: Sure.

 

He opened the door to the right of the table and there it was.

My kid was with me and got a look, too.

 

Me: We need to be on time and you’re the driver.

Kid: We’re on time.

Me: If the patient isn’t on time they give the driver a jolt of radiation.

Kid: Aren’t you the funny one.

Me: I’ll be here all week.

 

PS: When you feel the car you’re driving drifting off the road, don’t yank the wheel and over-steer or you might roll it.

PSS: Maintaining a clear conscious is a good way to keep your car on the road. Ask yourself, ‘what would a jackass do’ then don’t do it.