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The new ‘nearmal’
All right. The experts are finally admitting we may never go back to ‘normal.’ This seems to be particularly applicable to those of us who are segregated into the High Risk Category, by underlying health issues or age or poor lifestyle choices (smoking, for example). I’ve read quite a few articles on this subject, and
Cycles
There’s an excellent book, “The Fourth Turning,”* still available after a bit of searching, which I recommend if you’re debating whether history repeats itself or life is simply a series of random events. Astrologers, of course, are vastly and professionally fascinated by cycles of time. This book deals with that premise, that time/history follows a
Heinlein’s Directive
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, pitch manure, solve equations, analyze a new problem, program a computer, cook
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A quote
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today, tomorrow and forever
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” – Émile Zola Perhaps in the light of recent protests and mind-bending developments, we should all try to ‘live out loud.’
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Spirituality
“We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.” Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science and author of “The Science of Mind”
What next?
It’d be very convenient to blame the peculiar conjunction of Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn for the Covid-19 virus and the significant protests currently raging across the nation. Blame won’t help us deal with the situation, however. We need to sit down, especially with people who come from different backgrounds and cultures, and seriously look
He woke in a swamp
Oddly, he was on his hands and knees, chin inserted at the fork of a large tree limb. His wrists were tied to stakes driven into the ground on either side of his tree-trapped head. As he moved his legs, he realized the same arrangement bound his knees. Moldy odors roiled on the air currents,
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Reach out
“And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1868 Write a genuine letter to a dear friend.Make that phone call you’ve been trying to find time to do.Send a funny ‘thinking of you’ card. Reach out and contact someone. It’ll be meaningful, whether in the larger