Who said weather affected moods? Whoever, whatever, today has swung back to near summer, and I was moody. [I am too appalled by the state of the world, not to mention the hardship suffered by some who are close to me, and my own teeny weeny capacity to hang on to not totally helpless] So … More Meditation Rocks
My last post was a re-blog, thank goodness some people can write and others like Ken Loach can show, that there is a totally dreadful and perverse world out there and some people are suffering it daily, hourly, and the rest of us act helpless/feel useless in the face of this despair. We keep ourselves … More Hope and Despair
Originally posted on Ramblings of an Ordinary Man:
It’s not been a great year for humanity has it? we seem to be lurching from one low point to another and just when you think we have reached rock bottom, new depths are somehow reached. For many of us it is hard to resist the creeping…
I know it has been said over and over how time feels different depending on what you are thinking about, doing, being etc. Subjective time – I spend quite a bit of it as well as the actual stuff on the blogs. I recently added some poems on Poetry of Moods and Moments, and quite … More Time: 5 years or 50?
The sun is shining. I went to book-group this morning. I hadn’t read the book, Carl Safina, Beyond Words. It is about animals, ‘what they think and feel’, and I had not wanted to read it but now I might, as it seems it is also about science, the kind that is about observation and … More Sunshine and happiness
What happens when we realize something counter-intuitive? It is not that we were wrong, exactly, it is that the perspective we had, the way we looked, the system we were looking inside, was … not really REAL. We had a story in our heads that seemed to work … most of the time … then … More Realize: get out of the box
Yesterday morning was the first Ocean View bird walk after the summer season. There were not so many birds visible. A hybrid crab apple tree was enchanting, especially as we have all noted that the other wild trees of apple and pear have almost zero crops this year. [I went biking on Monday to pick … More A bird in the hand
Originally posted on Yanis Varoufakis:
When humour becomes essential in understanding the farcical reality we live in, pieces like this are priceless. CERN Discovers New Particle Called The FERIR CERN has just announced the discovery of a new particle, called the “FERIR”. This is not a fundamental particle of matter like the Higgs Boson, but an…
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