https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojf18wT_Xtk On the turning away From the pale and downtrodden And the words they say Which we won’t understand Don’t accept that what’s happening Is just a case of others’ suffering Or you’ll find that you’re joining in The turning away It’s a sin that somehow Light is changing to Read more…
“I will keep my freedom, my guns, my money, and my religion, and you can keep the change“—-Hank Williams Jr. . This T shirt represents the state of mind where a sense of spiritual failure has taken over, and to complete the look the man should be wearing a MAGA Read more…
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” —attributed to Albert Einstein As a human race, all that we will ever see, unto eternity, is our Self. When we can only look Read more…
From the “blog site that would not die”, though hospice visits are now being made daily. Creating and publishing a blog post is often like making a group call to all of my friends and acquaintances, and usually having only one person answer the call. Yet, ONE is Read more…
I write and publish this stuff because it is part of my own healing. Having learned (wrongly) at a young age that my voice, and myself, have little value, other than my capacity to please the authority of the moment, I continue to witness my adult version of this wounding, Read more…
Chances are that many who practice racism, such as white supremacist Americans, are suffering from a non-fatal neurophysiologic disease. Anosognosia is one name for the diagnosis. The prognosis is based solely upon healing intention with its required openness to change. Any similarities between elements of our culture’s anosognosia and the Read more…
A lot of innocent and unaware people got swept up in the tide of the Trump revolution, as well as many with malevolent intent. Why did Trump come to represent the so-called will of the “oppressed white” American people? The words “sociopathic,” “inciter of violence,” and “malignant narcissist,” have come Read more…
My cousin Brian passed away at his father’s home Saturday morning after a family oriented Christmas day celebration. . I am saddened by his death, it was an early one, for sure. My Uncle Wayne was told by a psychic three years ago that he would outlive his son Brian, Read more…
What is Christmas really about, anyway? Is it to celebrate the birth of a prophet or a God (depending on your perspective), remembering the disadvantaged, gift giving, Santa Claus, fruit cake, alcohol, big meals, family and friend connections, or, perhaps, discovering and/or affirming the mystery and beauty of one’s own Read more…
Donald Trump lives a life outside of the rule of law, many times making up his own rules as he goes along. Donald Trump lives a life outside of the boundaries of sanity and harmonious order, creating the conditions for cultural neurosis, anxiety, and hatred. Friday, Donald Trump continued to Read more…
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and Read more…
“Our lives begin to end, the moment that we become silent about things that matter” Martin Luther King, Jr. All human beings should consider joining a recovery program, as we are all challenged and threatened by our human condition. And because most of us are not now actively seeking healing Read more…
One evening, a Cherokee elder was teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. This battle that goes on between the two wolves is inside us all. One wolf Read more…
A part of our family just had a granddaughter come in from out of town for the holiday. Kayla is staying at Toni’s, her mother’s home. Kayla swung by Laretta’s home, who is her grandmother, and our sister, showing off herself and her brother’s baby to Laretta. Nobody was wearing Read more…
I was born 65 years ago today, in Good Samaritan Hospital in NW Portland. There was 18 inches of snow on the ground on November 20, 1955. My mother and father lived in NW Portland at the time. Mom had to take a cab to the hospital My father was Read more…
One evening, a Cherokee elder was teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. This battle that goes on between the two wolves is inside us all. One wolf Read more…
“If you repeat a lie often enough, it gets accepted as truth”— Joseph Goebbels-Hitler’s propaganda minister I would rather be socializing with friends, family, and the big wide wonderful world, than writing about insanity. Being stuck at home, and witnessing the insanity unfolding within our Presidency, parts of our government, Read more…
“Oh, and by the way, you are not going to like what comes after America . . . ” Leonard Cohen . “I intentionally downplayed the severity of the pandemic”—–Donald Trump (early 2020 book interview) . “I call the media ‘fake news’ to damage their reputations, while elevating my own Read more…
This is what I do while on my “creative cloud”. I am a writer, after all. Someday, I may even find interested readers (my take on insight, self awareness, “mindfulness and meditation”, and spiritual evolution are not riveting subjects for the vast majority of Americans)! I have included several links Read more…
This is the second part of my continuing series on silence: We arrived at the Oregon coast, at Cannon Beach, on a partly sunny Monday afternoon. We were quickly greeted by our very long-term dear friend from Arizona, June and her ten-year love interest, Michael (are you ever getting married?). Read more…