Toward a World that Works for Everyone
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
April 23, 2021 But then there comes that moment rare When, for no cause that I can find, The little voices of the air Sound above all the sea and wind. ~Katherine Mansfield, Voices of the Air Divine guidance has a tough time getting through all the voices in my head. When my mental […]
April 19, 2021 All that is Earth has once been sky; Down from the sun of old she came, Or from some star that travelled by Too close to his entangling flame. ~C. S. Lewis, The Meteorite I had one of those thoughts the other day, the kind where if you’re walking, you raise […]
April 14, 2021 God of our ordinary days and nights, God of extraordinary times, together we pray— guide our discerning and our deciding. ~Mary Wickham, Discernment Prayer There’s a balance between trusting the integrity of information from outer sources, and relying on ourselves as the valid fount of our individual truths. I’m seeking that […]
April 6, 2021 Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering, there is a crack, a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen, Anthem I’ve noticed that as soon as I stop focusing on a sufficiently complex activity to keep my mind occupied, I automatically seek […]
