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Choice Bits: George Saunders, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf My recent experience reading for the first time writing by George Saunders was like OMG. Here are some George Saunders lines from the stories in his book Tenth of December: “Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.” “Dad had once […]
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Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. Howard Thurman
The laughter of women sets fire to the Halls of Injustice and the false evidence burns to a beautiful white lightness It rattles the Chambers of Congress and forces the windows wide open so the fatuous speeches can fly out The laughter of women wipes the mist from the spectacles of the old; it infects
“The Laughter of Women” by Lisel Mueller Read More »
Working from home, as millions of us now are, is more conducive to short-term employment sidelines, turned to quite often when the need arises for meeting an unexpected bill. Here are some suggestions as to slightly unusual gigs you may consider while reflecting upon your Sun sign’s Second House, which rules the money in your
The ‘gig’ economy continues Read More »
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. Jesus of Nazareth, according to the Gnostic Gospels
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“The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.” —Johannes Kepler The elliptical motions of the planets orbiting the sun, calculated by astronomer/astrologer and
Something to this after all? Read More »
“I’ll call for pen and ink and write my mind.” Wm. Shakespeare Go for it, Bill. Some days you simply cannot stand one more sound bite.
Firmicus Maternus (circa 330 B.C.) devised a strict formula of ethics for all who wished to learn and practice the art of astrology. Some of his precepts: Be modest, upright, sober, and content with few goods, so that the shameful love of money may not defile the glory of this divine science. … See that