Toward a World that Works for Everyone
December 2, 2021 …More and more I’m satisfied with partial explanations like a fly with one wing, walking. ~Dean Young, Quiet Grass, Green Stone Pain is a nutcracker. I wonder if it will go away now that it’s cracked open a deeper heart connection? It’s as if an opaque gray geode has been smacked […]
November 30, 2021 My Bonnie lies over the ocean, My Bonnie lies over the sea, My Bonnie lies over the ocean, Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me. ~Traditional folksong, My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean Sometimes it feels like “my Bonnie,” my good, is always over there, just out of reach, on the […]
November 27, 2021 By Terry Andrews, TerryAndrews.org, https://tinyurl.com/2s39vvus I love to hear people’s stories of how they got to where they are. I’ve always been fascinated by the twists and turns and synchronicities that lead us to where we are going. In my own life I can look back and see the bread crumbs that […]
November 27, 2021 They come as secretly as dreams at night To stand near doorways or upon the stairs Almost like guests, congenial and polite… Perhaps you are aware. Perhaps you dial Emergency for help. Perhaps you throw A window open, shouting desperately while They seize you, hush you, leave with you—although A brave policeman […]
November 25, 2021 …In time, you know Yourself thoroughly rotten For hating yourself so. ~David Galler, Self-Hatred It’s shocking to come across a really ugly emotion like self-hatred. A bit like discovering that a ferocious troll has replaced your cute little garden gnome. I know our shadows keep reappearing to be observed and released. […]
November 21, 2021 by Terry Andrews (TerryAndrews.org, https://tinyurl.com/fcudm2yj) This past week, we had another big shift, moving us even further into the new realm. It is happening very regularly now, as we move steadily ahead into this new expanded way of being. As we expand we are being asked to simply let go of what […]
November 22, 2021 November wind. The feeling of knowing something before you said it, all over everything… Leaving doesn’t mean much. Arriving means everything, how you came to be where you were, even if later it will hurt to think of it. ~Katie Peterson, The Truth is Concrete It’s heartbreaking that a face I […]
November 20, 2021 Obey thy heart… Souls above doubt, Valor unbending, It will reward,— They shall return More than they were, And ever ascending. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Give All to Love Yesterday, I witnessed an act of kindness delivered to a homeless person sitting on a fireplug at an intersection in the middle of […]
November 18, 2021 I make a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list… perhaps God listed what to create in a week: earth and oceans, the armature of heaven, with a place to fasten every star… ~Linda Pastan, […]
November 17, 2021 Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them? ~William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1 I wish my direct line to Spirit didn’t seem to have so much static. […]
November 16, 2021 The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. ~Robert Frost, Dust of Snow I keep hoping every time I bump up against the insanity of […]
November 11, 2021 Out of your whole life give but one moment! So you make perfect the present… Thought and feeling and soul and sense– Merged in a moment… ~Robert Browning, Now I want something new to write about. I’m tired of writing about the same problems and worries. It’s only entertaining for so […]
November 8, 2021 …Stewards tirelessly Persuade them onwards to his voice and hands… Each dwells some twenty seconds. Now, dear child, What’s wrong, the deep American voice demands, And, scarcely pausing, goes into a prayer Directing God about this eye, that knee… In everyone there sleeps A sense of life lived according to love. ~Philip Larkin, […]
November 7, 2021 After the murder, like parades of Fools, The bungling supernumeraries come… Meanwhile, in another place—their figures cold, Both turned to shadows by a single pain, Bloodless together—the killer and the slain Have kissed each other in the wilderness, Touching soft hands and staring at the world. ~David Wagoner, Murder Mystery I […]
November 6, 2021 Ah God, that love should be Another road to pain… Still—if death were not Another way to love, There were little need of heaven That sages whisper of. ~Willard Wattles, Heaven Here’s a question that has bothered me pretty much forever. If each human being is actually an eternal soul experiencing […]
