Toward a World that Works for Everyone
July 17, 2021 And all the lonelier stars that have their place… And planet-dust upon the edge of space, Look down upon the fretful world, and I Look up to outer vastness unafraid And see the stars which sang when earth was made. ~Marjorie Pickthall, Stars I love it when expectations aren’t met. I […]
July 15, 2021 everything that must happen happening out of sight, perfectly, as if to be wild means you carry with you nothing that needs to be explained ~Stephen Dunn, Hawk I am saturated with grief this morning. And it’s all because of the hawk. I can hear it even now, half a mile […]
July 13, 2021 Guardian of Forever : I AM THE GUARDIAN OF FOREVER. Capt. Kirk : Are you machine or being? Guardian of Forever : I AM BOTH AND NEITHER. I AM MY OWN BEGINNING, MY OWN ENDING. Spock : [archly] I see no reason for answers to be couched in riddles. Guardian […]
July 12, 2021 Where past Time the roads go far Littered with dust of sun and star… Thoughts and bodies bright Are turning to eternal light. ~Haniel Long, Star-Dust After I learned Reiki in early 2017, I would spend an hour every day giving myself Reiki. I did that for months after Reiki I/II […]
July 10, 2021 At the forging of the Sword— The mountain roots were stirr’d… So fiercely struck the Forgers of the Sword. ~Isabella Valancy Crawford, The Forging of the Sword I’m sure many of us are breathlessly anticipating futuristic advancements like med beds that have been promised by channels as well as by many […]
July 8, 2021 I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful… ~Sylvia Plath, Mirror I absolutely believe the oft-repeated saying that we attract people and experiences to act as mirrors when we […]
July 7, 2021 No coward soul is mine No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere I see Heaven’s glories shine And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear… ~Emily Brontë, No Coward Soul Is Mine The phrase, “The peace that passeth all understanding,” keeps running through my mind to the point of annoyance, so […]
July 7, 2021 Acknowledge and honor the emotions. And what you’ll find is that the more and more that you’re just simply tipping your hat to what you’re feeling in the moment, the more that it moves through you. So you get to enjoy what you would call the celebration even more readily, and you […]
July 5, 2021 You have walked as a sailor walks, breathing Deep of this ocean air, With the tread of your footsteps leaving A salt-etched memory there. ~Mary N. S. Whiteley, Salt Etching Something funny is happening as I meander toward a deeper level of what appears to be genuine emotional balance. I have […]
July 3, 2021 There is a house in me. It is empty. I empty it. Negative space: the only native emptiness there is. ~Diana Khoi Nguyen, An Empty House Is a Debt I’ve always been afraid of emptiness. No wonder I never learned to meditate. All my life, I’ve been subject to one addiction […]
July 1, 2021 Some of us are like trees that grow with a spiral grain as if prepared for the path of the spirit’s journey to the world of all souls… The dog wants to know, did you ever harm an animal, hurt any creature, did you take a life you didn’t eat? ~Linda Hogan, […]
June 30, 2021 He looks into my truthful face Beneath the rising moon, And on his balalaika He plays a lying tune. ~Helen Muckley, The Deceiver Deception can hide anywhere. I am a walking example of it, as I glide through the store and make purchases and chat with other customers or employees. I […]
June 28, 2021 I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought… We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest. ~William Butler Yeats, A Dialogue of Self and Soul Why would anyone choose to deliberately poison themselves with […]
June 27, 2021 Sometimes the lights all shining on me Other times I can barely see Lately it occurs to me What a long strange trip it’s been Truckin’ I’m a going home… Back home, sit down and patch my bones And get back truckin’ on ~ Robert Hunter, Truckin’ Those old rockers, they knew […]
June 25, 2021 The mask that burns like a violin, the mask that sings only dead languages, that loves the destruction of being put on… the mask with a sutured mouth, a moonface, with a healed gash that means harvest. A glower that hides wanting… ~Rebecca Lindenberg, Carnival On the “reopening” of California… The […]
