Solitude is a river . . .

Friday, May 16, 2025. It's Freya's day . . .The weatherfeather indicates moderate Westerlies bringing sunshine and a few clouds with upper 80's to TulseyTown today.

Inner peace and world peace, personal prosperity and economic equality, personal health and planetary health—all of these are illusory dualisms in the non-dual reality of the dharma in which all are joined as one … just as you and I in this moment of your reading this.

How do we foster human connection in an age of AI? Interesting question being posted by several internet pundits. All agree we need to do more real world face-to-face and put down our devices. Of course this advice is being published on devices and across platforms. – jus' sayin'

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Trump: if his lips are moving, he's lying.

Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness, but you won’t figure it out alone. – Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine, 5.1.25.

What psychedelics can teach us has more value than you might think. – David J Blacker, Psyche, 4.19.25

Solitude is a courageous encounter wherein we bring our naked, most raw and real self, into the presence of pure love. Quite often this can happen right in the midst of human relationships and busy lives. – Richard Rohr.

At The River Clarion

Sitting in the river named Clarion on a

water splashed stone, all afternoon

I listened to the voices of the river.

[…]

You don't hear such voices in an hour or a day.

You don't hear them at all if selfhood

has stuffed your ears.

[…]

And still, pressed deep into my mind

the river keeps coming, passing by on its

long journey, its pale, infallible voice singing.

[…]

… the river Clarion still flows

from wherever it comes from

to where it has been told to go.

— Mary Oliver, “At The River Clarion” in Evidence: Poems. Beacon Press, 2009.