Hi-jacked by comfort . . .

It’s Thor’s day and a light snow is falling here in Colorado Springs this morning.

“It takes strength and self-love to say goodbye to what no longer serves you.” ~Rumi

Today in 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone.

What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger, right?

The very first life forms on earth figured this out a few billion years before science decided to call it “hormesis.”( …)Basically under the right amount of stress living things (from cells to plants to mammals) grow stronger in their attempt to return to homeostasis (…) practical examples include cold plunging and fasting (…) women are the natural ninjas of hormesis. ..practicing physical pain management from the onset of puberty, navigating hormonal fluctuations and uterine contractions on a monthly basis for years (decades!) (…)

(W)hether we put that low-grade stressor to use in childbirth eventually or not women continually apply these principles (consciously and unconsciously) in their emotional and spiritual lives… ‘feeling’ more – and suffer greater rates of anxiety and depression – but also forge deeper personal connections and largely create the social web that undergirds functioning societies.

— Commusings: On Strength & Being Human

Our biology has been hijacked by the comfort trap.— Jeff Krasno at Commune. 

Injustice

The beautifullest bird’s the pigeon,

but “pigeon” doesn’t rhyme with “love,”

so poems praising love, religion,

or nature all ignore the pigeon.

Their iridescence doesn’t get a smidgen

of the honor granted to the dove.

The beautifullest bird’s the pigeon.

But “pigeon” doesn’t rhyme with “love.”

— Jared Campbell, “Injstice,” in Rattle, online.