Toward a World that Works for Everyone
August 11, 2021 I’m reviewing the situation… All the trials and tribulations!… I think I’d better think it out again! ~Lionel Bart, Reviewing the Situation (from Oliver!) There are so many avenues available for me to scurry down, pursued by phantasms of fear and goblins of grief. My mind, trained as it is to […]
August 7, 2021 It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ e.e. cummings The blog forum has been going strong for well over a year now. I believe I can speak for many participants when I say that it is a comforting, and comfortable, place to visit and post. It’s […]
August 4, 2021 Of course, before things get worse, A person can run. ~Galway Kinnell, Neverland A few days ago… I knew it was coming. Predictable as sunrise, and not nearly as pretty. And yet, I still stopped dead inside the door of CVS and stared at the clerk. “What?” “I said, you need […]
August 2, 2021 To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles… ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet In some ways, Hamlet‘s plaintive soliloquy could apply to prepping for potential food shortages. […]
July 31, 2021 To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe… To right the unrightable wrong… ~Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion, The Impossible Dream (The Quest) I think I’ve gotten into Don Quixote territory now. I’m writing back to the public health authorities who clutter my inbox with alarmist emails about the so-called […]
July 30, 2021 By email ~ Dr. Peebles through Natalie Gianelli ~ Nataliegianelli.com Your energetic essence has always put you in the exact place, at the perfect time, with the right people, at each and every single moment, for your absolute and perfect expansion. You have never been somewhere that you were not supposed to […]
July 29, 2021 I tell you, something went wrong there a while back. …I want to know exactly what seems wrong to you, how something could seem wrong to you. In what way do things get to be wrong? ~John Ashbery, Crossroads in the Past The Gods of Synchronicity have a wicked sense of […]
July 26, 2021 “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt The drumbeats are sounding. Be prepared! It’s coming! It’s here! I look out the window. Same placid suburban street with too many parked cars. Nobody panicking. Nobody waving arms over heads as they flee, shrieking, for safety…somewhere. What […]
July 25, 2021 It is left to the vagaries of the mind to invent love and despair and anxiety and their pain. ~Anne Stevenson, The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument After an intense yet uplifting Emotion Code session, (1) I walked around feeling a bit goofy, smiling for no reason, loose limbed and […]
July 24, 2021 ~ From a recent personal reading with Dr. Peebles ~ Channeled by Natalie Gianelli ~ NatalieGianelli.com ~ “The first thing to remember is that even when you call it a wound, that this is not something bad that needs to be fixed. This is just something that is revealing itself that wants […]
July 24, 2021 I find no peace, and all my war is done. I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise; And nought I have, and all the world I seize on. ~Sir Thomas Wyatt, I Find no Peace Peace, like good […]
July 23, 2021 You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe that much unseen is also here. ~Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road Front-page news this morning: they will be holding the last drive-through Covid vaccination clinic under the tent outside the […]
July 22, 2021 ~ From a personal reading with Dr. Peebles ~ Channeled by Natalie Gianelli ~ NatalieGianelli.com ~ “It is important that when you are looking at your work in the world as you are choosing it, if you choose it, to assist to dissolve the enslavement factor, that you don’t go into doing […]
July 21, 2021 Unshackled, you move slowly towards the door. You feel a revolution coming, your own four walls trembling. ~Michael C. Blumenthal, Ordinary Heartbreaks How much heartbreak is too much? A friend’s twenty-one-year-old cat passed away, the second of two who lived to a contented old age before going on to higher realms […]
July 17, 2021 And all the lonelier stars that have their place… And planet-dust upon the edge of space, Look down upon the fretful world, and I Look up to outer vastness unafraid And see the stars which sang when earth was made. ~Marjorie Pickthall, Stars I love it when expectations aren’t met. I […]
