Toward a World that Works for Everyone
February 7, 2023 One thing I have learned the long years through, To know the false words from the true. ~Eva Gore-Booth, The Vagrant’s Romance I used to greet timesaving things like the microwave oven and Lean Cuisine frozen dinners with ignorant joy. Oh, goody! When I get home from work, dinner can be […]
February 4, 2023 Now, in a breath, we’ll burst those gates of gold, And ransack heaven before our moment fails. Now, in a breath, before we, too, grow old, We’ll mount and sing and spread immortal sails. ~Alfred Noyes, Immortal Sails I’m beginning to question the necessity of entropy. Must everything degrade? Bodies, buildings, […]
February 1, 2023 Dr. Peebles channeled by Natalie Gianelli, NatalieGianelli.com (via email) (Note from Natalie) Beautiful Souls: So many of us start out the new year with resolutions. We want to lose weight, be on time, exercise more, stop procrastinating. We “resolve” to be better people—more responsible, more respected, more aligned with other people’s expectations—we […]
January 30, 2023 Oh, see the knight in armor… Who conquers those who see him not, Their brooding heads bent down; The knight whose scarcely-heeded strokes Have cleansed and cleared the town! ~Vachel Lindsay, The Moon Is a Knight Since I’m perpetually frustrated by what I see as hollow exhortations to raise my vibration, […]
January 28, 2023 O the joy of my spirit! It is uncaged! It darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe, or a certain time —I will have thousands of globes, and all time. ~Walt Whitman, Poems of Joy It’s possible I’m being too picky, but certain conditions need to be […]
January 25, 2023 Some of us stood around, waiting for the miracle. ~ Elizabeth Bishop, A Miracle for Breakfast I’ve been ruminating upon the common principles of the complementary and alternative (“CAM”) healing modalities with which I’m familiar, like acupuncture and homeopathy. I believe CAM treatment strives to remove barriers to the body’s self-healing ability […]
January 22, 2023 Honey badgers…are known for their incredible strength and aggressive attitude when facing likely predators…Honey badgers are also well known for their tremendous courage and fearlessness. They have been observed…chasing adult lions from their territory…Their best form of defense is offense. Their strong jaws, sharp teeth and claws and their ability to rapidly […]
January 20, 2023 Patience must be the charm To heal me of my woe: Patience without offence Is a painful patience. ~Thomas Wyatt, Patience, Though I Have Not I recently become interested again in homeopathy. I researched it ten or fifteen years ago, but haven’t paid much attention since. But a friend’s talking about […]
January 17, 2023 The child who threw away leaf after leaf of the many- coated onion, to get to the sweet heart, found in the end that he had thrown away the heart itself. ~Allen Upward, The Onion Lately, I’ve been ruminating upon the possibility that not only has religion been presented to humanity […]
January 13, 2023 Belief’s a shadow to be looked into and into until relief is gone. ~Peter Gizzi, True Discourse on Power There are some things about my life I really don’t like. Circumstances that oblige me to have a great deal less of what I desire (and a proportionate amount of what I […]
January 11, 2023 Open your eyes, for this world is only a dream. ~ Rumi I promised myself yesterday that I would spend some time with sketchbook and drawing pencils…and I did not. There wasn’t anything I absolutely had to do which took up so much time there was none to spare for feeding my […]
January 9, 2023 I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall after the floodwaters find their way to the mouth of the Columbia River as it enters the Pacific and causes all of it to rise. …I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I […]
January 7, 2023 I sigh for the heavenly country, Where the heavenly people pass, And the sea is as quiet as a mirror Of beautiful beautiful glass. ~Stevie Smith, The Heavenly City Much has been said about the veil that obscures universal, spiritual, and metaphysical truths from humanity. Our origins and true nature are […]
January 5, 2022 But lately I have learned what it is to be human. Learned, but not understood. It seems to involve a great deal of misery crammed into a very short lifetime. ~ R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon I’m still marveling at the difference it has made to look the dragon of […]
January 3, 2023 Everything’s happening on the cusp of tragedy, the tip of comedy, the pivot of event. You want a placid life, find another planet… Try any of the eight, try Planet X. It’s out there somewhere, black with serenity. How interesting will our times become? How much more interesting can they become? ~Mark […]
