Toward a World that Works for Everyone
December 28, 2022 The Ocean has its silent caves, Deep, quiet, and alone; Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Ocean It’s that lull time of the holidays, midweek between Christmas and New Year’s. On the grander stage of the world, events transpire. I pay little […]
December 27, 2022 I will take this road much further Though I know not where it takes me… I have all that I requested And I do not want what I haven’t got ~Sinead O’Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got It’s with difficulty that I repress a generalized, pervasive impatience and […]
December 26, 2022 I don’t like this kind of waiting:… Nothing changes. This room needs flowers. ~Robert Long, Interior Decoration I have much too narrow a definition of creativity. Intellectually, I recognize the axiom that any activity, thought process, or daydream can be creative. Still, my subliminally accepted definition insists that only artistic activities […]
December 24, 2022 Well, I lay my head on the railroad track Waiting on the double E But the train don’t run by here no more Poor, poor pitiful me… Lord, have mercy on me ~Warren Zevon, Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me It’s Christmas Eve afternoon, and that peculiar holiday loneliness has set in. Quite […]
December 23, 2022 Pity the poor proud dancer who can give Death to her ease, so that the dance may live, Who makes, with pain to every body part, From perfect will power her imperfect art. ~Paul Engle, Dancer, Four Poems Is Christmas decorating mundane and third dimensional? Or is it channeling the higher […]
December 21, 2022 For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him… For I perceived God’s light about him both wax and fire. ~Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno Life offers many opportunities to showcase my worrier role. A weekend ago one cat needed […]
December 20, 2022 Pause Breathe Ponder Choose Do By email ~ Dr. Peebles, channeled by Natalie Gianelli, NatalieGianelli.com Note from Natalie: Beautiful Souls: In this always busy season, we want to remind you to be gentle with yourselves. Do what needs to be done but don’t get caught in the web of perfectionism. You […]
December 17, 2022 It’s Christmas once again in Santa Barbara There is not a snowflake to be found No sleigh rides, no snowmen like you see on the Christmas cards But we’ve got a lot of Christmas in our hearts ~Barry De Vorzon and Michael Towers, It’s Christmas Once Again in Santa Barbara For […]
December 8, 2022 Therefore I gladly trust / My body to this school…~ George Herbert, Church Monuments One of my spiritual quests appears to be developing the faith that I’m always supported by Universe, and, as a corollary, that I should be trusting. Yesterday, I had three clear demonstrations of why people are not worthy […]
December 6, 2022 I can’t stop my gratitude, which includes, dear reader, you, for staying here with me, for moving your lips just so as I speak. ~Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude Gratitude’s a tough row for me to hoe. My mental chatter is always saying, yeah, but…I am grateful for this one […]
December 3, 2022 On the day I set out, the mountain is high in front of me, the unreliable god of mist and fog… Everything becomes lucid. ~Clifton Gachagua, Mountain This morning, I’m dealing with another episode of my cat’s wounded stomach. Painful, messy symptoms, multiple veterinary consults, medication injection blessedly provided at home by […]
November 28, 2022 I am the joy of Life expressing and receiving. ~ Louise Hay Joy is a challenge for me, which probably explains why I’ve been presented with it as my quest. A situation bubbled into awareness this summer, something I neither expected nor wanted. And it seemed unlikely to be going away quickly […]
November 19, 2022 No matter the pull toward brink… There is a time for everything. ~Ross Gay, Sorrow is Not My Name It’s hard to settle to anything this morning. I’m in the trailing energy from yesterday’s bout of accomplishing stuff with our handyman friend. Half an hour of “doing“ this morning reminds me, […]
November 16, 2022 Once warring factions agreed upon the date and final form the apocalypse would take… And physicists rocketed copies of the decree to paradise in case God had anything to say, the silence that followed being taken for consent, and so citizens readied for celestial ascent. ~Mary Karr, Disappointments of the Apocalypse […]
November 13, 2022 Praise letting go, but can we truly love What never is possessed, what never showed The least wish to be had and to be owned? This is not possessing, it possesses too… ~Robert Richman, Possession I absolutely love how our bodies tell us what’s what in no uncertain terms. I oftentimes […]
