Here’s my Sunday world, in about 25 miles and five hours.
The yoga babes connect and head for the 10:15 ferry, which is currently at the “yellow” threat level, according to TSA. Given how peaceful it is here on the water, I’m inclined to think that refers to the yellow-green pollen, which is coating [Continue reading]
Senator Hagan was in town today. That’s me in the pink baseball cap (from the local TV news).
I’ll be back tomorrow.
A is helping me streamline and simplify my blog, so stay tuned for some improvements.
Namaste.
The Wall Street Journal featured an interesting article yesterday: Happy Couples Kiss and Tell. The author interviewed several couples (including her own parents) who have been married for decades and asked them the secrets to their success.
Yeah, I know that’s a picture of Ozzy and Sharon, but this is the [Continue reading]
On the mission of Democracy Now:
“I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people’s limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the [Continue reading]
Two writers who have had a major impact on me have died in the past two days. The Catcher in the Rye was one of those books that skewered my teen-age angst and hung it up to dry with everyone else’s teen-age angst. I knew I wasn’t alone after meeting Holden Caulfield, and for that [Continue reading]
Each January, my yoga group does a B & B – breakfast and burning – and this past Saturday was our day to bring food and eat together. We shared simple gifts with each other – the perfect crystal, tulip bulbs and gardening gloves, a new meditation chant. K had snapped each of [Continue reading]
Friday is our first morning without him. The house feels impossibly large, empty. The big tulip poplar outside the window stands barren and leafless against the grey clouds.
Suddenly the sky moves and I wait. Robins, dozens of them, land on the branches.
The tide rises. The tide falls.
There are some things in our social system to which all of us ought to be maladjusted. Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear, only love can do that.
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We must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. Before it is too late, we [Continue reading]