Toward a World that Works for Everyone
March 7, 2023 Two ancient beings sit at a lunch counter in the diner at the end of time. One has a velvety brown fedora angled over his eyes à la holodeck Captain Picard. The other, emulating a woman, wears a wide-shouldered gray gabardine jacket and pencil skirt, open-toed high heels, and silk stockings with […]
March 5, 2023 The intriguing comfort of an imagined past is entered through objects the same way we continue the present but without nostalgia ~Allan Peterson, The Appeal of Antiques It’s Sunday morning, and a sudden craving landed on me, fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus. I want to go to […]
February 25, 2023 All those treasures that lie in the little bolted box whose tiny space is Mightier than the room of the stars, being secret and filled with dreams:… All those treasures—… Calling me to fold back the lid of the little box and to give them sleep finally. ~ William Carlos Williams, Slow […]
February 23, 2023 The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening As I review upcoming medical appointments for feline and human family members, the phrase blazes […]
February 21, 2023 It is a perfect world, a world of consummate excellence, a world of supreme wonders, the ripest fruit in God’s garden, the master-thought of the universe. ~ Kahlil Gibran, “The Perfect World” I’ve found a book that seems to hold the secret to optimal health for everyone. It was published in 1997 and is […]
February 20, 2023 There is no wind; A breath then must stir you— If not a dancer, What are you? what were you? ~Ethel Romig Fuller, Dust Motes I’ve become a really hard sell of late with the supposedly necessary upheaval we’re experiencing. It seems like a global con game I can no longer […]
February 12, 2023 But the faith doesn’t die That in our time these things Will amaze the literate children… And the dark places be Ablaze with love and poetry When the power of good prevails. ~Derek Mahon, Afterlives My life overflows with shoulds, mostly related to serving my family or doing things to ensure […]
February 11, 2023 Somewhere, always, somewhere, there’s a day when healing comes… I say, healing will come. ~Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Healing Will Come: Elegy after Natural Disaster Something’s different. What is it? Since it’s a difference I like, I want to pinpoint it and absorb it so that it becomes part of me and […]
February 7, 2023 One thing I have learned the long years through, To know the false words from the true. ~Eva Gore-Booth, The Vagrant’s Romance I used to greet timesaving things like the microwave oven and Lean Cuisine frozen dinners with ignorant joy. Oh, goody! When I get home from work, dinner can be […]
February 4, 2023 Now, in a breath, we’ll burst those gates of gold, And ransack heaven before our moment fails. Now, in a breath, before we, too, grow old, We’ll mount and sing and spread immortal sails. ~Alfred Noyes, Immortal Sails I’m beginning to question the necessity of entropy. Must everything degrade? Bodies, buildings, […]
February 1, 2023 Dr. Peebles channeled by Natalie Gianelli, NatalieGianelli.com (via email) (Note from Natalie) Beautiful Souls: So many of us start out the new year with resolutions. We want to lose weight, be on time, exercise more, stop procrastinating. We “resolve” to be better people—more responsible, more respected, more aligned with other people’s expectations—we […]
January 30, 2023 Oh, see the knight in armor… Who conquers those who see him not, Their brooding heads bent down; The knight whose scarcely-heeded strokes Have cleansed and cleared the town! ~Vachel Lindsay, The Moon Is a Knight Since I’m perpetually frustrated by what I see as hollow exhortations to raise my vibration, […]
January 28, 2023 O the joy of my spirit! It is uncaged! It darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe, or a certain time —I will have thousands of globes, and all time. ~Walt Whitman, Poems of Joy It’s possible I’m being too picky, but certain conditions need to be […]
January 25, 2023 Some of us stood around, waiting for the miracle. ~ Elizabeth Bishop, A Miracle for Breakfast I’ve been ruminating upon the common principles of the complementary and alternative (“CAM”) healing modalities with which I’m familiar, like acupuncture and homeopathy. I believe CAM treatment strives to remove barriers to the body’s self-healing ability […]
January 22, 2023 Honey badgers…are known for their incredible strength and aggressive attitude when facing likely predators…Honey badgers are also well known for their tremendous courage and fearlessness. They have been observed…chasing adult lions from their territory…Their best form of defense is offense. Their strong jaws, sharp teeth and claws and their ability to rapidly […]
