Toward a World that Works for Everyone
August 20, 2022 It is human nature to listen to witnesses and decide who is telling the truth…[the woodcutter’s] problem is that he has heard the same events described by all three participants in three different ways—and all three claim to be the killer. ~ Roger Ebert, review of Rashomon I’ll start with a sweeping generalization: […]
August 19, 2022 He rises out, the aged one Imprisoned in the dying child, And spreads his wings to the new sun: Climbing, he withers into light. ~Howard Nemerov, The Dragonfly Tuning out fear is like tuning out other annoyances. The neighbor’s dog has been barking for over an hour. At some point, while […]
August 17, 2022 I am the mother of sorrows, I am the ender of grief; I am the bud and the blossom, I am the late-falling leaf. …Down to the grave will I take thee, Out from the noise of the strife; Then shalt thou see me and know me— Death, then, no longer, but […]
August 12, 2022 …Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Many have described earth as a prison planet. While that’s a bit bleak, […]
August 12, 2022 David Icke, in an interview on August 6 where he discusses his new book, The Trap, brings up intriguing questions and postulations about reincarnation (for a link to the interview, see Suzanne Maresca’s article of August 9). The information he imparts resonated with me, starting with: Why would…souls want to come here […]
August 3, 2022 Life is bare Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather Just can’t get my poor self together I’m weary all the time, the time So weary all the time ~Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, Stormy Weather We’ve got weird, heavy weather right now. One of the bank employees called it “monsoonal” yesterday. […]
August 2, 2022 Wise at last… Bewitched, bothered and bewildered—no more Burned a lot, but learned a lot… ~Rodgers and Hart, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered The single word that best describes my state these days is “bemused.“ I wander through the hours in a state of mild incredulity. Sensible-looking adults are wearing masks outdoors, […]
July 26, 2022 The ties that bind Now you can’t break the ties that bind You can’t forsake the ties that bind ~Bruce Springsteen, The Ties that Bind We hosted a lifelong friend for a couple of days last week. I’ve known her for more than six decades and we consider ourselves honorary sisters. […]
July 19, 2022 Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ~Leonardo da Vinci I hesitate to admit this, but I haven’t flown since the July 4th weekend of 1990. The Painted Cave Fire, […]
July 11, 2022 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. ~William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming Today’s the birthday of an […]
July 2, 2022 The Thunder Beings are a race of powerful storm spirits from Algonquian mythology that live in the sky and cause thunder and lightning…Thunder Beings are dangerous spirits who sometimes kill people with their powers, but they are also sworn enemies of the horned serpents and sometimes rescue people from those monsters. ~ […]
June 26, 2022 How do other people bear what you are still afraid of? The answer is that when big things happen you do go through the looking glass, but it is still you who goes through, the inner text is all still right to left, so you just keep reading. ~Jennifer Michael Hecht, Steady, […]
June 24, 2022 Oh, I could hide ‘neath the wings Of the bluebird as she sings The six o’clock alarm would never ring… Oh, what can it mean To a daydream believer… ~John C. Stewart, Daydream Believer I half-jokingly texted a friend, “I’m scraping up gratitude for the even keel of my life.” This […]
June 18, 2022 Truth is truth / Till the end of reckoning. ~ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure There doesn’t seem to be anything new I can say about the topics that have concerned me over the last couple of years. Although I’m assured by various podcasters and writers that “things are happening“ and great […]
June 11, 2022 I’m finding my focus moving evermore inward. Still keeping track of happenings, through what I consider reliable sources, but in a mostly passive way. Emulating the idealized 1950s middle-class American housewife, I’m happiest while making home and family comfortable, secure, and last but not least, prettied up. Purchasing a few trinkets. Doing […]
