Toward a World that Works for Everyone
September 13, 2022 In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. ~ Matthew 7:12, New Revised Standard Version, Bible I just heard from a friend about a tragic situation related to her work. The situation reminded me that information about satanic ritual […]
September 12, 2022 I have not walked on common ground, Nor drunk of earthly streams; A shining figure, mailed and crowned, Moves softly through my dreams. ~Marjorie Pickthall, Vision I was recently asked (by the Universe) to help a person who didn’t want to be helped. After an hour or two of attempted assisting, […]
September 9, 2022 Yours is a torn and wistful beauty, born On lonely beaches when the tide is low— Fog tangled in the marsh-grass…a forlorn Blue heron wading in the afterglow… Dull silver lapping on a wet sand-bar… And lost wings circling near a ghost-white star. ~Doris Caldwell, California Coast I’ve heard it said […]
September 5, 2022 Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast. ~William Shakespeare, Macbeth Some things I’ve discovered lately… ~ Everything does happen for a reason. The more we dislike it […]
August 31, 2022 via email ~ TUT.com Sometimes, when you’re feeling your lowest, the real you is summoned. And better than ever before, you understand how fabulous you are, as you realize vulnerable doesn’t mean powerless, scared doesn’t mean lacking in beauty, and uncertainty doesn’t mean that you’re lost. These realizations alone will set you […]
August 26, 2022 I always enjoyed going into the holodeck. ~ Jonathan Frakes I’ll be the first to admit that my eyes start glazing over when someone asserts that everything is an illusion, including these words that I am writing, the body in which I dwell, and of course Earth itself. Nothing is truly real […]
August 24, 2022 If I could tell the world just one thing It would be that we’re all OK And not to worry ’cause worry is wasteful And useless in times like these… In the end, only kindness matters ~Jewel, Hands The other day I sat in a meditative state for a bit. While […]
August 20, 2022 It is human nature to listen to witnesses and decide who is telling the truth…[the woodcutter’s] problem is that he has heard the same events described by all three participants in three different ways—and all three claim to be the killer. ~ Roger Ebert, review of Rashomon I’ll start with a sweeping generalization: […]
August 19, 2022 He rises out, the aged one Imprisoned in the dying child, And spreads his wings to the new sun: Climbing, he withers into light. ~Howard Nemerov, The Dragonfly Tuning out fear is like tuning out other annoyances. The neighbor’s dog has been barking for over an hour. At some point, while […]
August 17, 2022 I am the mother of sorrows, I am the ender of grief; I am the bud and the blossom, I am the late-falling leaf. …Down to the grave will I take thee, Out from the noise of the strife; Then shalt thou see me and know me— Death, then, no longer, but […]
August 12, 2022 …Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Many have described earth as a prison planet. While that’s a bit bleak, […]
August 12, 2022 David Icke, in an interview on August 6 where he discusses his new book, The Trap, brings up intriguing questions and postulations about reincarnation (for a link to the interview, see Suzanne Maresca’s article of August 9). The information he imparts resonated with me, starting with: Why would…souls want to come here […]
August 3, 2022 Life is bare Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather Just can’t get my poor self together I’m weary all the time, the time So weary all the time ~Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, Stormy Weather We’ve got weird, heavy weather right now. One of the bank employees called it “monsoonal” yesterday. […]
August 2, 2022 Wise at last… Bewitched, bothered and bewildered—no more Burned a lot, but learned a lot… ~Rodgers and Hart, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered The single word that best describes my state these days is “bemused.“ I wander through the hours in a state of mild incredulity. Sensible-looking adults are wearing masks outdoors, […]
July 26, 2022 The ties that bind Now you can’t break the ties that bind You can’t forsake the ties that bind ~Bruce Springsteen, The Ties that Bind We hosted a lifelong friend for a couple of days last week. I’ve known her for more than six decades and we consider ourselves honorary sisters. […]
