Toward a World that Works for Everyone
April 22, 2022 In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden. ~ John Robbins I sometimes wonder if the elites realize they just have too much stuff. Perhaps they are no […]
April 21, 2022 We must go on, because we can’t turn back. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island As the days roll by in their seeming sameness, I have less inclination to talk. I’m not antisocial but I’m not seeking out interactions, either. I deeply appreciate the people I keep in contact with via text […]
April 13, 2022 Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior’s soul… ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor Getting ready to take a family member to a routine appointment, my attention is drawn to glittering rings and jangly bracelets in my dusty jewelry box, […]
April 10, 2022 Everyone has agony, the difference is I try to take my agony home with me now and then and teach it to sing. ~ Arthur Miller It’s so tranquil this morning, I almost don’t want to spoil it with words. There’s a lovely sense of drifting on a tide of bird song […]
April 8, 2022 Dr. Peebles through Natalie Gianelli ~ NatalieGianelli.com ~ by email A Note from Natalie ~ Today we begin a five-part series from Dr. Peebles’ words of wisdom, which he gave us during the Community Group Channeling Session on April 3. He said: You are in a time on Planet Earth when there […]
April 6, 2022 the empty void is a speck of the heart that cherishes deeply. the universe is a particle of unbroken dust soaring in the air. ~Fei Ming 废名 (translated from the Chinese by Yilin Wang), the soaring dust of the mortal realm All I’m ever looking for is peace. On a good […]
March 31, 2022 It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. ~ Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness It’s one of those jumpy mornings when I don’t want to settle to any one thing. I’m happy to lay the blame on something other than myself, like solar flares and CME. Or […]
March 29, 2022 Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight. ~Anonymous, Star Light, Star Bright I’m wandering along today in a pleasant daze because it finally rained. The rolling hills that are already drying out, victim to California’s […]
March 27, 2022 We are the Seven Devils and their kin Evicted from our Paradise of Sin— But undismayed, since man has ever been A doorway with the portals swinging in… Outcasts we are, but never quite cast out. ~Edmund Vance Cooke, Seven Devils I’ve always kept track of things, made notes, and revisited […]
March 21, 2022 An earthquake in California occurred… If wonders abundant lie in the maze of the great unfathomed cosmic immense obscured to our gaze by illusion’s haze, what more might there be that we cannot sense? ~Harley White, Stellar Glitter We have a thing in California called earthquake weather. Now, it’s doubtful there […]
March 18, 2022 …Some are ghostly trumpets You hear playing very faintly Behind the music you were listening to Originally. You realize The trumpets are coming From another station And you do your best to tune them out. ~Michael Brownstein, The Trumpets are Coming At this point in the scheme of things, I feel […]
March 5, 2022 It must be somewhere, the original harmony, somewhere in great nature, hidden. Is it in the furious infinite… in heartmusic’s mothersong or in tears? It must be somewhere, immortality, somewhere the original harmony must be found: how else could it infuse the human soul, that music? ~Juhan Liiv (translated from the Estonian […]
March 3, 2022 The strange goose flying north in southward September flies alone. The sane bees create the leader they need. But cattle and lemmings and men are odd animals ready with widening nostrils and crazing eyes to follow their mad ones over any cliff. ~John Russell McCarthy, Each to His Choice Since I […]
February 24, 2022 …My gift, this flaming feather, will remind you you have held what you shall miss: it will slay falsehoods and mists, will free you from the grip of those whose trickery does not live unless you take it to be true. ~Arthur Gregor, Gift of the Firebird Funny thing about the […]
February 19, 2022 It comes from its faraway home in the sky, And it gladdens each heart, it brightens each eye, It enters the casement, it enters the door, A welcome guest to the wealthy and poor. ~Louisa May Alcott, Sunlight I woke up thinking about discernment this morning. The word, its meaning, how […]
