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Liam O'Grady

Liam O'Grady

Music always matters, but sometimes I like silence. I'd prescribe you a moment of silence and stillness but I'm just a fiddler. And I rarely get to see dancing.

Improv Plot Aware

5 min readAug 8, 2026

Thanks to family and friends the Great Mystery inspires, or at least my heart is open to look into ways in which I can sum up the gist of the collective conflict and produce a program which provides at least some peace knowing we all want to get something out of life and when we put into this experience consciously we get back what we give. So how can I give free of expectation the selfless love only hopeful that those who get what I have to say benefit in the long run? If peace to me means getting enough in life, we must know our limits by being in touch with one another. But we must also know our needs. If I get too much or too little, I’m not at peace. There are some friends of mine, however, who I can’t seem to get enough of. Where love unconditional is infinite and there’s always room for improvement, we thrive with time for sharing the road home together. A structure for ensuring oneself gets one’s daily dose in life has to do with being a force of love. We might shy from the idea of being an enforcer, but we must force ourselves to do our homework. We must force ourselves to eat our vegetables. Let’s look into the complex social creatures that we are. As individuals we need group time, for sure. But a being requires solitude in spirit to achieve better self-knowledge, which is important for village truth to be celebrated. I understand myself better, I know how I can fairly pitch in to the conversation when I’m with my peers. If I don’t get my alone time, with my altar, or by the river, I miss out on the opportunity to see clearly what matters so much for my own personal development. Granted, we live in a society where the structure is set up for us to be oppressed, so it’s difficult to meet our personal needs for the most part. Some folks have transcended the system and have awarness of the multiple selves that are at play within. But who is so intent on identifying certain parts of our inner being that need attention, love? One can be set on traveling the world and seeing all there is to see hoping to learn from life’s experiences and grow and prosper, but there is so much to explore inside of ourselves. If there ever could be such a structured program for people to settle for where we could end a day with joy looking back on all the experiences we had and while unwinding be able to reflect on how meaningful moments make us feel, we could bring in some order to all the chaos that happens inside of us and be able to more easily navigate the intensity of our natural growth processes. Say for example we are set with a structure where we ask a question about the day to come before we go to bed, knowing that we did our homework and can rise and shine with a clean slate in the morning with hopes to get as much out of a day as possible because we might as well given we don’t know how many days we get to see while here on Earth. I wake up in the morning, and I see I set myself up because I love myself. The question in my journal says “Where and when matters most with whatsoever the social atmosphere?” Me being some what of a mystic, I understand where I was coming from when I asked the question and how it relates to my need for some synchronous kind of momentum in life. Then I set myself up with a structured morning routine that charges me up for the day so that my intention is clear and I go through my day with a vibrant rhythm underlying my doings, able to set the tone in celebration of recovering a familiar family vibe much to do about enjoyment in life and experiencing the bliss and excitement that is possible in a lifetime with friends and loved ones. So this program for peace as enough in life is possible, but so is non-violence and wounds that can distract us from the direction I’m trying to follow. We are perfect only in our imperfection but we might as well be practicing with hopes for a memorable moment to look back on. Me being without close proximity of tribal life at the moment, if I set the intention of my day and experience a wild ride with time for processing the days happening, it’s meaningless to me without relationship. Now I can be physically solo and still think of close relations. It just dawns on me that sharing with loved ones in an intentional pattern is expansive and has so much room for insight and growth and development beyond a single limited perspective. Should oneself be surrounded with loving kindness and have the means to practice investing so much time and energy on one’s personal level in life, I’m sure oneself can find deep peace knowing there’s self-love involved when it comes to being there for oneself as the enough that you are, not having to be redeemed by a church to prove your worth. It’s in being able to bridge one’s truth to the world in the moment that reminds us of our enough in our full selves where after I post this piece I can dwell all I want on how I should have or could have said things differently or more and such as feeling like I didn’t take the time to communicate an important detail. But if I don’t have the vocabulary to get it all out there in a simple expression, the going big is limited to a cheezy or corny celebration of sorts, from recovery of a family vibe to the diversity of the tribes, how many different ways are there to say Village Truth Matters? Corn and cheese only goes so far. We shall lift each other up as we get down to what we share. Some members of the community are lost in cycles of confusion, some folks are using substances to cope with their upset, some people are experiencing vicious cycles of negativity for all I know. Whatever the concern, as we are there for each other, one another is the answer we’ve been looking for and we can manage to show our elders respect I hope. Blessed be the birds that sing and let’s see how writing up a report about peace didn’t leave out the peace sign, where the spaces between the lines represent the portions for the mom and dad, the son and daughter. I’ve had enough of the people pleasing put on my happy face everythings just peachy role play but alas I’m still hopeful for a spirited adventure as I might learn something new tomorrow about that time and place where things are happening. Aho! May the benefits breathe and to all a good light!

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Liam O'Grady
Liam O'Grady

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Music always matters, but sometimes I like silence. I'd prescribe you a moment of silence and stillness but I'm just a fiddler. And I rarely get to see dancing.