James Bethel James Bethel

It's gotta be rock'n'roll

Freya's day . . . and the “Hunter's Moon” continues to be super for all of us …

Garrison had a good week. Good enough he shared some of it.

We are ALL living beyond our means. What that means: unsustainable. Misperception disempowers. Darwin was wrong. Life is not the consequence of competition, but cooperation.

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. – Wendell Berry

Chuck Berry was born on this date, The “Father of rock'n'roll,” guitarist singer was born in 1926, St. Louis, Missouri

You are not the ‘voice in my head.’ You are the one who is witnessing that.

The Way

Chaos has a mind of its own.

The Way has a direction.

Its direction.

— jab

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James Bethel James Bethel

How high, why Wilde

It's Thor's day … and tonight's clear sky over TulseyTown will feature the “Hunter's Moon” and the comet Tsuchinshan. Once the sun sets – around 6:45 p.m. – the comet should be visible increasing in the Western sky. The Supermoon should be in the sky by 7 p.m. Weatherwise, the Fall roller coaster continues with a warming trend for the next at least 7 days.

Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. – Dorothy Parker

What's it all about? Garrison levels with us.

Today in 2018 Canada legalized recreational cannabis.

So, why is cannabis (marijuana, ganga, pot, grass, weed) illegal in the U.S.?

In case you were wondering: What would Nixon and Reagan think of Kamela Harris? At least according to the L.A.Times.

Playwright Arthur Miller was born on this date in 1915 New York City.

And, yesterday, Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 Dublin.

If we are angry and hateful toward people who are angry and hateful, where does that get us?

Only when we can weep at what is not yet loved can we live into a new reality; for love is waiting to be born. – Ilia Delio

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James Bethel James Bethel

Words: still arguing with chaos . . .

It's Odin's day … and a super moon – largest full moon of 2024 – is on the rise, reaching perigee at 7:45 p.m. this evening here in TulseyTown. The “Hunter's Moon” reaches peak illumination tomorrow around 6:30 a.m. The next full moon – The Beaver Moon – is November 15 and will be the biggest super moon in 70 years.

[Trump has gone] from being periodically adrift and sporadically demented to being 24/7 unfit and in need of permanent medical attention. He's one cloudless night away from baying at the moon. – Aaron Rupar of Public Notice cited by Heather Cox Richardson in yesterday's Letters From An American.

Language, evolution, computers, Ai, O-My!

We expect a lot from our experience—entertainment, precision, an answer, reassurance, clarity. But our expectations confuse the whole issue … by looking for understanding, we are arousing confusion, since it implies that we don't have what we're looking for. The Universe senses the contradiction. You can’t force your way into happiness, and you can’t fake your way into feeling whole. More contradictions. You are already enough. Happiness follows once you get that.

If you can't be happy where you are, what makes you think you'll be happy over there? – Fr. Richard Rohr. (check out the brief video clip from CAC.

The true nature of mind is ... without suffering— it is supreme bliss. The bliss, joy, and happiness that we feel in deep states of meditation...inherently within your own mind beyond the duality and constructs of your thinking. – Chandra Easton

love is more thicker than forget

love is more thicker than forget

more thinner than recall

more seldom than a wave is wet

more frequent than to fail

...

It is most sane and sunly

and more it cannot die

than all the sky which only

is higher than the sky.

– e.e. cummings

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