March 19, 2021 Fierce-throated beauty! Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night, Thy madly-whistled laughter… Thy trills of shrieks by rocks and hills return’d, Launch’d o’er the prairies wide, across the lakes, To the free skies unpent and glad and strong. ~Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter […]
The Crystalline Gene
March 15, 2021 O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears… O little souls! as pure and white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine… ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Weariness I drag myself through the days, one stumbling foot after the other. But I […]
O Breath of Life!
March 10, 2021 Maru in Japanese means the ship will make it back home. ~James Masao Mitsui, Spring Poem For the Sake of Breathing, Written After a Walk to Foster Island I keep forgetting to breathe. Not literally, that’s autonomic. But if I pause and take notice I realize that I am barely, barely […]
An Imagination of Peace
March 7, 2021 ‘The poets must give us imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar imagination of disaster. Peace, not only the absence of war.’ But peace…can’t be imagined before it is made… ~Making Peace, Denise Levertov Miraculously, I just had a completely normal conversation with an old friend. I’m still marveling. How […]
The Last Year of the Winds
February 27, 2021 There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel […]
I Learn by Going Where I Have to Go
February 26, 2021 I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~ Theodore Roethke, The Waking I’m very fond of the notion that we already know everything. That we can just open up some […]
Dr. Peebles: Tune In the Joy, Tune Out the Worry
February 26, 2021 Dr. Peebles, from a group email session, channeled by Natalie Gianelli ~ Nataliegianelli.com Each of you is doing bigger and better work than you might give yourself credit for. You are experiencing greater awareness of the truth of who you are – the higher-self, the essence of divinity, the true consciousness. It […]
The Armageddon Closet
February 25, 2021 My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall—the sap of Spring… ~Christina Rossetti I have an Armageddon closet, and no, it isn’t filled with guns. It has five-pound bags of flour, canned beans, soup. Salsa, canned fruit, bags of lentils, oatmeal and […]
Isolation, Introspection, Illumination
February 24, 2021 For it is important that awake people be awake, or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep; the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe — should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. ~ William E. Stafford In my view, the only real upside to our enforced […]
Dr. Peebles: Like Nature, We Can Constantly Say “Yes”
February 23, 2021 Dr. Peebles, from a group email session, channeled by Natalie Gianelli Nataliegianelli.com Every no is a yes to something else. Your lives will be continuously full of ups and downs, lefts and rights, and adventures that your mind will call good and bad; but the truth of who you are does not […]
Mask Mandates: Do They Harm Rather Than Help?
February 17, 2021 ~ https://tinyurl.com/lafgt88f Mindless Mask Mandates Likely Do More Harm Than Good Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Story at a Glance While the media claims mask mandates are based on science and will “save lives,” science is actually ignored wholesale and recommendations are primarily pushed based on emotional justifications and triggers Recommendations have […]
Walking Pain
February 22, 2021 If pain for peace prepares…~Emily Dickinson In my opinion, I shouldn’t have pain. Or at least, I shouldn’t have pain anymore. I’m speaking of physical pain. The ouch kind. As in, take a step, OUCH. Repeat repeat repeat. That walking pain gets old after a month, a year, several years. I can’t […]
You Are Brand New in Every Moment
February 21, 2021 Dr. Peebles, from a recent group email session, channeled by Natalie Gianelli nataliegianelli.com Life is not a to-do list. You are a human BEING, not a human DOING. We invite you to remember that you are brand new in every moment. The mind will tell you that you must make up for […]
This Winter, the Flu Vanishes…or Does It?
“Calling BS on the Alleged Drop in Flu Cases from 400,000 Last Season to 165 This Season” February 19, 2021 JD Rucker, NOQ Report https://tinyurl.com/2zcbaeqr The cognitive dissonance required to accept these numbers is stunning. This is all part of a narrative supporting an agenda to keep the masses in the dark, compliant, and terrified. […]
The Pleasures of the Palace
February 20, 2021 Once upon a time, when the world was awash in common sense, courage, and camaraderie, there was pleasure to be had in the ordinary interactions of our lives. A routine trip to Costco could bring joy. “Oh, look! It’s nearly Spring, there are mystery-color iris bulbs in bulk. There are early Easter […]