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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Amazing... !

I am currently catching up old episodes of THE AMAZING RACE. It has always been one of the best of the 'reality' shows, with great scenery. Every now and then they go someplace I have been, sometimes even pretty specifically, like the corner of Penang Road and Orchard Road which is very near where my daughter and her husband and family of cats and dog lived in Singapore. The couples in each Race are quite a range of personalities, come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Ages range from young to... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 3, 2018

Why are we so afraid?

Fear is behind all the hatred, all the defensiveness, all the resentment, all the turning away, running away... What makes some white people so afraid of black skin, brown skin, yellow skin, red skin that they will call the cops to protect them from a black woman eating a sandwich, a brown family seeking asylum? That they will inflict the most heinous injustice on whole communities, like the Japanese internment camps in WWII, and the abduction of American tribal children to be re-programmed away... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 23, 2018

The thing about bubbles...

They think they're building a monolith, but it is nothing but a huge, toxic bubble composed of lies and selfishness, filled with immorality, treason and hot air. The pretty sheen they admire on its outside is the same as that on an oil slick. It gets bigger and bigger... and so does the shiny pin being constructed by Mueller and sharpened by indignation, outrage, and desperation of the people whose lives and world are being destroyed. Reality itself is pretty sharp, too. Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 21, 2018

Not too hard to imagine...

So, here's a scenario... Trump and Putin, a few years ago: T: I really have to admire how you are so incredibly rich and powerful! You can have anything you want. You can do anything you want. How do you do it? P: I have a system. I don't let anything or anyone get in the way. T: Sure, that works when you are the head of the country. Not the US, though--Too many regulations and laws there. Sad. P: Well, if you were head of the US, you could change a few things... In fact, I would really like it... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 14, 2018

About Heroes

Heroes... perched on pedastols, enthroned, enshrined... And suddenly one day they come toppling down, to be charged with heinous behaviors, to be run out of town on a rail in a suit of feathers and tar... Or we just tear them down on principle, for daring to rise above the ordinary, pitching stones at anyone someone else has elevated to the Hero's height. I have a theory about Heroes. First, they don't make themselves. I have heard of many a celebrated hero who didn't want to hear it, who denied... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Thoughts inspired by a post on Facebook

Western Civilization is like the pavements it lays over the earth: it is thin and fragile compared to what it thinks to control and subdue. The power of the people who have lived with the Earth instead of despite it is rooted deeper and will outlast the crust of cleverness of Western Civilization. Indegenous peoples worldwide are unifying in acknowledgement of one another, and when the forces of the European colonial dominance have been dissipated by their seed-energies of greed and power, they... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 18, 2018

Why are so many Americans depressed and suicidal?

We live in a toxic environment, we eat a great deal of food that is actually bad for us, we focus on what is superficial, we distract ourselves with shiny entertainment, we live a sped-up lifestyle and resist stillness, solitude, and delay of gratification... "Relationships" are often just encounters without much depth, and too much parenting is based on indulgence or punishment or abandonment... Education is about grades, not about teaching or learning the tools of living in the world as... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 11, 2018

Kabu's post today inspired this rant which turned into a post.

It isn't the people of different countries at war or at odds even, with each other. It is the governments, the politicians and so-called leaders who make their decisions on behalf of everyone regardless of what we citizens believe or want. Especially now, when the American people are not in the least represented by our representatives in Congress, still less the ugly fellow in the White House pouting and tweeting and catastrophizing his way through an insane misadministration. It has always been... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, June 8, 2018

...and this

A fascinating series from NPR: https://www.npr.org/series/607483398/-howtoraiseahuman?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20180607&utm_campaign=goatsandsoda&utm_term=nprnews Sign in to see full entry.

Stewardship

Gorillas in the wilds of Rwanda are seeking out and dismantling poachers' snare-traps. https://matadornetwork.com/read/young-gorillas-working-together-destroy-poachers-traps-rwanda/ It comes down to this: Sentient animals learn about their environment, as human children do, learning day by day from their parents, and other people they meet. It has been observed that we are all role models of something, some understanding or behavior, to our children, and so we are also teaching our non-human... Sign in to see full entry.

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