Toward a World that Works for Everyone
November 3, 2024 I desire only to know the truth…and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same. ~ Plato Yesterday’s melancholy could not overwhelm today’s brilliant sunshine and sparkling energy. I’ve given up the notion of rising above the effects of outside forces. I am inescapably influenced by […]
November 2, 2024 Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. ~ David G. Allen It’s a gray, gloomy day, after a week of crisp sunshine. Perhaps that’s whence the melancholy arises. But I think it’s more than that. To have any peace […]
November 1, 2024 It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. ~ George Orwell We’re having the carpets cleaned for the first time in too many years to admit. Logistics typically stymie me (where to corral the cats? What about Mom?). […]
Of Comets, Five Dollar Notes And Tea Bags Dear Family and Friends Sitting in the twilight at the end of a hot and humid October day I looked out at the caramel glow descending across the early evening sky. There had been a light rain shower earlier and now hundreds of flying ants were rising […]
October 29, 2024 The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection. ~ Carl Jung I don’t know exactly what’s going to happen with this upcoming election, but I do know that something will change. There will be a US presidential election next week. It’s not a wishful prediction by […]
October 26, 2024 Well, now, everything dies, baby, that’s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back ~Bruce Springsteen, Atlantic City I’ve never thought much about what life would be like if we lived a thousand years. Kerry K’s recent video about the reincarnation trap and the truncated, disease-plagued existence humans have […]
October 22, 2024 …Dwelling from, not upon, the space you want to inherit is the fastest way to change absolutely everything. ~ TUT message (TUT.com), 10/22/24 I zipped out of the house this morning, fueled up at Fuel Depot at the new, lower price of $4.33 per gallon, spent way more than I intended to at Trader […]
October 12, 2024 In the same boat With a lot of your friends Waitin’ for the day Your ship’ll come in And the tide’s gonna turn… ~Dolly Parton, 9 to 5 Updated link below. Thank you to S for pointing out the original link was behind a membership paywall. Apologies! ~ Catherine, 10/13/24 Self-care […]
September 28, 2024 There’s a more intimate entertainment form that we call simply “story hour.” Our storytellers are so expert that they enchant adults as well as children, and these are popular events. ~ Matthew Ward describing recreational activities in Heaven-Nirvana, in Matthew, Tell Me About Heaven (Suzanne Ward) Do extraterrestrials read fiction? I wonder. […]
September 14, 2024 I was a day late and a dollar short All the sweet cookies In the store been bought… Everything choice is gone Might as well travel on ~Donnie and Marie Osmond, A Day Late and a Dollar Short Out of all the heartbreaking and crazy things that are happening in this […]
September 7, 2024 I do believe in an everyday sort of magic—the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone. ~ Charles de Lint Without intending to, I’ve turned giving my […]
September 1, 2024 Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears!… Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Time I don’t feel like I have a hall pass from the Universe to indulge in a negative […]
August 29, 2024 If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe…This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave. ~ Eckhart Tolle When thinking about that statement of […]
August 24, 2024 I like the story where the cowboy lives because the bullet struck the whiskey flask instead of his thin-walled heart… I’ve come to appreciate the happy ending, no matter how tacky or unearned. ~Kristen Tracy, Happy Endings I periodically cycle through this thought process: You want to live peacefully alone and […]
August 21, 2024 The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ~Elizabeth Bishop, One Art Just a few seconds in to Kerry K’s recent video, I realized that she was speaking to me. We are finally letting go, […]
