Now that I am working full days, off-the-clock time expenditures are considerably more limited. Therefore, each bit time potentially of great value, depending on what I do prioritize. Alas, I have let many days of splendid librarian looks slip by because so busy with books. However, it does seem important to continue writing out my…
The concept of unity requires active hands to form the reality.
The sense of unreality continues unabated, each time I tune in to current events on the world stage and within the political sphere. It seems many of us are waiting for the bad and mad to drift aside, and reveal days whose contents are not sullied by worry and scandal and outrage and despair. And…
Hardness of heart is an abomination to the cultivation of soul.
We are moving house soon. In the midst of packing and envisioned arrangements, the privilege of such preoccupations takes my breath away. Often, the mundane attending to everyday tasks of family life will unexpectedly elicit a sweeping sense of heartbreak when consciousness seizes upon the fact and fates of the many families and children in…
Idealism is the surprisingly steely counterpoint to unflinching rationality.
As even a very occasional reader “staying for the prose” would quickly gather, my thoughts borderline obsessively turn to the great faith and hope I place in the prospect of humanity deciding en masse to tend to the healing of the earth by laying claim to our intended role as stewards of the cycles of…
When the pattern of progress requires dehumanization, it could be disrupted through basic actions of human survival.
I was thinking the other day about the Badlands being appointed as reservation land, and how the tribes were sent there to reside because the place appeared devoid of most discernible life and was therefore deemed suitably worthless. Traditionally sacred and suited to prayer and meditation, those rocks were not sites for the bodily sustenance…
Removing the transactional nature from a relationship allows for a free exchange.
It has been interesting to learn how very positively people remember their elementary school library experience. Without exception, each person to whom I’ve mentioned my new employment proves to be equal parts enthusiasm and nostalgia, primarily recalling school libraries as bastions of encouragement in a place that felt safe. These reactions certainly reflect the reasons…
Each day could be an occasion for actualization, if unattached to the largeness or smallness of the doing.
My mind is habituated to a fairly nonstop chatter of ideas, most of which never come to fruition. It’s nice to think that some of these ideas are just incubating, and may still yet someday meet corporeal reality. Hopefully so, once I manage to shake off my own particular shackles that have me waiting for…
It feels good to be proven wrong, or, someone actually wants to hire me even though I have a PhD in English!
After years of picturing and planning the details of possible lives to live in concurence with various attempts at employment, I realized the wisdom of not letting my fancy such free reign. The disappointment of not getting the job is painful enough without compounding it with the additional spirit-rot of fruitless visions never meant to…
Because we are irrevocably flesh and blood, our contents orient toward life and growth, though surrounded by the contrary.
I love it when people come to the conclusion that our one true hope is to wholly and deliberately reclaim our reliance upon the planet. Spread seeds, rehabilitate concrete. Take it upon ourselves as the massive collective able to turn attention and hands to enact the revitalization of roots and rivers and air by planting planting…
Though technically distant, a perceived threat does affect the most internalized contents of the psyche.
Among the many fine things about growing older, I particularly enjoy the increasingly lengthy list of matters one realizes are of no matter. An early addition to this list: I no longer find it necessary to denigrate or defend my liking for astrology. Indeed, I find it to be a helpful system for cultivating psychological…
Insight/Outfit of the Day 