Off to bed now once again — once again to sleep, and once again perchance to dream; to dream of a better world; a better World into which — just maybe — I will be blessed to awaken once more; first to be blessed to awaken therein, and then to blessed with the chance to […]
“Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen … And dear Lord, please protect me from the […]
FACT — You are only one of roughly 7 billion humans living on one small planet orbiting one small star in one back-eddy “rural” neighborhood of one small galaxy in one relatively insignificant cluster of galaxies; all surrounded by literally BILLIONS of similar clusters of galaxies of neighborhoods of stars containing planets like ours — […]
FACT — No matter how critical our crises or terrible our tragedies or colossal our challenges, we are indeed but a small speck of dust in the grander scheme of things. AND this must NOT prove to be a call to depression or hopelessness or a loss of Meaning … Indeed, we can just as […]
FACT — No matter how small we might be … no matter how weak & alone we might appear … no matter how insignificant we might seem within the hordes of other humans, living on a planet that is floating amongst hordes of other planets, spinning within a galaxy that is floating amongst hordes of […]
Real generosity does not discriminate … It doesn’t care to whom a gift is given, and it matters not what is done with that gift thereafter … It simply sees an opportunity to share, and then does so.
“I stopped to get dinner for my son and the guy behind us in the drive-thru yells to my son, ‘Hurry up fuckin’ nigger!’ When I got to the window I asked to pay for his order. I wrote this on the back of his receipt and asked the cashier to hand it to him […]
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, it hates, and it weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it within words and it rejects all shackles that come near. No matter what you can say about it, there is always that which you cannot.” ~ inspired by Christopher Paolini It is indeed important for us […]
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything that needs to be known.” ~ Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne) . “I am hoping for you to find whatever you are looking for – and […]
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