On Writing

Writing is not a skill we emphasize or truly value. We "communicate" now, not write. The flow of a well turned phrase, the turning of ideas in a well argued piece, skillfully edited, are increasingly absent. Our thoughts are in catchy 140 character statements with the hope that they will "go viral" and we'll be noticed. If we did value good writing then the major newspapers, journals, and others, would not be filled with typos and grammar errors on a daily basis.

Speed is the product now. Marketed information. It no longer matters how it's said.

Spring in the process of Springing

"Spring is breaking out in a cataclysm, unexpected!...as though a healing had been found."    

    Daniel Berrigan

The American Dream

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This American Dream stuff gives me a pain. Telling the world about our American Dream!  I don't know what they mean.  If it exists, as we tell the whole world, why don't we make it work in one small hamlet in the United States?     

Eugene O'Neill

Let Your Light Shine

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson   A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles

seven deadly social sins

POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE
WEALTH WITHOUT WORK
COMMERCE WITHOUT MORALITY
PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE
EDUCATION WITHOUT CHARACTER
SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY
WORSHIP WITHOUT SACRIFICE

Mohandas Gandhi

"Sometimes you have to look hard at a person and remember, he's doing the best he can.  He's just trying to find his way, that's all.  Just like you."

 Ethel Thayer, On Golden Pond  

"You are the perfect day, and in you dwells the Light that cannot fail. "  

   The Testimony of Truth

 Which One Would you Follow?