Toward a World that Works for Everyone
March 18, 2022 …Some are ghostly trumpets You hear playing very faintly Behind the music you were listening to Originally. You realize The trumpets are coming From another station And you do your best to tune them out. ~Michael Brownstein, The Trumpets are Coming At this point in the scheme of things, I feel […]
March 5, 2022 It must be somewhere, the original harmony, somewhere in great nature, hidden. Is it in the furious infinite… in heartmusic’s mothersong or in tears? It must be somewhere, immortality, somewhere the original harmony must be found: how else could it infuse the human soul, that music? ~Juhan Liiv (translated from the Estonian […]
March 3, 2022 The strange goose flying north in southward September flies alone. The sane bees create the leader they need. But cattle and lemmings and men are odd animals ready with widening nostrils and crazing eyes to follow their mad ones over any cliff. ~John Russell McCarthy, Each to His Choice Since I […]
February 24, 2022 …My gift, this flaming feather, will remind you you have held what you shall miss: it will slay falsehoods and mists, will free you from the grip of those whose trickery does not live unless you take it to be true. ~Arthur Gregor, Gift of the Firebird Funny thing about the […]
February 19, 2022 It comes from its faraway home in the sky, And it gladdens each heart, it brightens each eye, It enters the casement, it enters the door, A welcome guest to the wealthy and poor. ~Louisa May Alcott, Sunlight I woke up thinking about discernment this morning. The word, its meaning, how […]
February 18, 2022 I’ve been thrilled by the freedom convoy in Canada and many similar convoy-protests it inspired in other countries. As an American, I’ve been waiting for the U.S. movement to get off the ground. I’ve noted its starting date of February 23 and the starting point of Barstow, California. I’ve seen the proposed […]
February 13, 2022 Balance is everything, is the only way to hold on… In my life I am going to keep trying for the balance, remembering the risks and the value of extremes… ~Alice B. Fogel, Balance It is so peaceful this morning. A mourning dove with her plaintive call. Train whistle in the […]
February 11, 2022 Patriots, in Peace, assert the Peoples Right, With noble Stubbornness resisting Might: No Lawless Mandates from the Court receive… ~John Dryden, To My Honor’d Kinsman, John Driden I have been in a state of teeth-gnashing irritation over the freedom-stealing mandates ever since the Covid Roadshow erected its tents nearly two years […]
February 5, 2022 …I love the weather in Minnesota, every winter kindness linked to obvious self-interest, thus so many kindnesses when you need them; praise blizzards, praise the cold. ~Stephen Dunn, Kindness I’m thinking a lot about the attribute of kindness this morning, chiefly because I spent half an hour yesterday in the company […]
February 1, 2022 But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. ~Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress There are so many things darting around in my mind, poking for my attention, it’s almost impossible to settle on just one. Should […]
January 30, 2022 What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams? ~Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning It is another slow and sacred Sunday morning, and there is nothing I must have. I am in a rare state of stasis, not strongly wanting a particular thing to be a certain […]
January 28, 2022 A ripple of ground still shows the line where a fence once divided this field in two— the habit of being divided fades slowly and may not be smoothed out in one growing season. ~James Hearst, The Fence Row I’m trying to make something be okay that is simply not okay. […]
January 25, 2022 Half my thoughts still originate in Paleolithic sub-Saharan Africa, the other half in turn-of-the-millennium New York City. No wonder any question I put to my- self comes back garbled. ~John Brehm, Scavengers Dr. Peebles recently gave me an exercise: close the eyes and focus on the palms of the hands, only […]
January 24, 2022 “This upcoming year will feel a little bit like a roller coaster. There will be much that is revealed, and, indeed, a lot of awakening.” In this recent personal reading, Dr. Peebles shares some information addressed to the collective of humanity as well as to yours truly. I find it reassuring that […]
January 22, 2022 I used to think that thunder was The sound of the Hammer, Thor, He’d beat it up on the clouds above Each time he was waging war… He didn’t know black from white… He didn’t know wrong from right… ~David Lewis Paget, The Hammer of Thor If I were writing the […]
