May 31, 2021 She always asks you, How is so-and-so?… She takes each anecdote and makes it grow, Or keeps it like a farmer hoarding seeds. …Existence might be flat If fascinating troubles did not brew… ~Elizabeth Bohm, Gossip In his May 29 podcast, Simon Parkes notified us that numerous “bad players” had […]
Masks, Theater, and the New Awareness Ribbons
May 24, 2021 https://tinyurl.com/4czsez49 By Brian C. Joondeph, MD, The American Thinker Awareness ribbons are so yesterday. Today it’s the mask that demonstrates caring, scientific acumen, and virtue. Awareness ribbons are popular fashion accessories among the elite, particularly Hollywood celebrities. They are meant to show support or raise awareness for a particular cause. These ribbons […]
The Miracle That It Is
May 30, 2021 Some of us stood around, waiting for the miracle. ~Elizabeth Bishop, A Miracle for Breakfast I feel fortunate to have grown up writing by hand, then learning to type on a typewriter, and so on and so forth, to get up to the present day where I often dictate what I […]
The Blossoming Time of Year
May 28, 2021 I can see, through the rifts of the apple-boughs, The delicate blue of the sky, And the changing clouds with their marvelous tints That drift so lazily by. And strange, sweet thoughts sing through my brain, And Heaven, it seemeth near; Oh, is it not a rare, sweet time, The blossoming time […]
The Human Behind the Mask
May 27, 2021 Masquerade! Every face a different shade… Masquerade! Look around—there’s another mask behind you! ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber, Masquerade What do masks signify? I deduce that, for religious or ceremonial purposes, the meanings are complex and arcane. What do masks signify if we wear them even when those who demand this bizarre […]
The Center of the Onion
May 26, 2021 How easily happiness begins by dicing onions… It’ true it can make you weep to peel them… for there’s nothing to an onion but skin, and it’s true you can go on weeping as you go on in… ~William Matthews, Onions Sometimes I worry about what would happen if I’m suddenly […]
Voluntary Separation
May 24, 2021 But what is suffering? Is it true that it requires my consent? In a shaft of evening, the trillion worlds collide. The rose in the vase grows whiter in darkness. ~D. Nurkse, The White Room The fastest way to feel lonely and separated from others is to go to a grocery […]
Unmasking Madness
May 19, 2021 Much Madness is divinest Sense – … Assent – and you are sane – Demur – you’re straightway dangerous – And handled with a Chain – ~Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest Sense I looked around carefully as I walked up to the door of Trader Joe’s. Everyone I could see […]
Dr. Peebles ~ Your Heart is Guiding You at Every Moment
May 17, 2021 Via email ~ Dr. Peebles through Natalie Gianelli ~ Nataliegianelli.com The divinity that is you is constant. Your work is not to connect to it but to make yourself aware of it. Each and every moment is an opportunity to listen to your heart and to ask what it wants you to […]
Dr. Peebles ~ How to Achieve Bliss
May 13, 2021 By email ~ Dr. Peebles through Natalie Gianelli ~ nataliegianelli.com This life can be simpler than what you have been taught. Every moment holds the capacity for you to be utterly present and blissful. Life is a journey. Sometimes it offers bumps and twists and ruts. Other times it is smooth sailing. […]
Shifting Through Lifetimes
May 10, 2021 You can hear huffs of hot wind kick the dust around them. You can feel the brickwork give. ~David Baker, Dust to Dust It seems many of us are having our eyes opened, one way or another. And many fervently long for those we call the “unawakened ones” to, well, wake […]
Dr. Peebles ~ The Trick to Quelling Fear
May 4, 2021 Via email ~ NatalieGianelli.com When you are noticing beauty it is impossible to be simultaneously fearful. Noticing beauty immediately transfers you out of fear. Many of you understand how powerful gratitude is. We remind you that if you are enjoying something beautiful – a sunset, the smell of freshly baked bread, or […]
Flying Toward Freedom
April 30, 2021 Picture this woman saying no to the constant yes of slavery… Imagine her saying: I freed a thousand slaves, could have freed a thousand more if they only knew they were slaves… ~ Sonia Sanchez, Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman I did something revolutionary yesterday. I walked into an establishment without […]
When the Beginning of the End Began
April 26, 2021 Something has changed that has changed everything else, has overtaken you like a memory of the future that appears at your side winking as if to suggest A new arrangement… ~ Philip Schultz, Change When Accountability seemed like a series of potential actions that didn’t affect me in an immediate way, I […]
To Feel or Not to Feel
April 24, 2021 You know what it feels like to hold a burning piece of paper, maybe even trying to read it as the flames get close to your fingers until all you’re holding is a curl of ash by its white ear tip yet the words still hover in the air? That’s how I […]
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