Moving Kharma . . .
Saturday, September 6, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Forecasters indicate moderate Northerlies continuing into TulseyTown, bringing some clouds and a cool mid 70's day.
Here. A constant call in a moving world. – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Offering Our Presence”
at Meditations, The Center for Action and Meditation.
A teacher speaks. – Robert Reich, online, 9.5.25
A well insulated attic won't help you if your foundation collapses. – Joyce Vance explains “the shadow docket” of the Supreme Court.
Efforts to protect the coming elections must begin now. – from the Brennan Center For Justice. 8.27.25
Novelist Alice Sebold turns 62 today. The author of The Lovely Bones was born in 1963 Madison, Wisconsin.
Moving Kharma
Today, my friend George provided more anecdotal
affirmation for my research into a theory of "moving kharma."
Def: the cost of moving above and beyond
the price of tickets, gasoline, truck rental, shoes, etc.
regardless of destination--next door, across town, around the world--
broken glass, flat tire, dropped transmission, a/c on the fritz,
smashed thumb, bumped head/elbow/knee, broken heel, ripped seam
doesn't matter. . . payment not commensurate with time nor distance.
Though always disruptive to best laid plans,
when aware of being amidst "moving kharma" Doc B's Rx is: pause,
remember to breathe, resume and repeat when necessary.
Moving kharma is a principle of universal synchronicity
and is a candidate for a corollary to Murphy’s Law.
The principle in brief:
moving with intent (regardless of motive) from one location to another
is contrary to the order sustaining the mover,
especially when non-conscious elements are in play.
Hence, the Rx of pause, breathe, resume.
Distinguished from Murphy,
MovingKharma seems to possess an element of debt
which may prove compounding if not recognized.
My friend George is preparing for an overseas vacation,
leaving day after tomorrow. Yesterday,
he sold a very expensive duplicate camera system
to help finance the journey. Today, he sends me a note:
The check bounced and the compressor in his a/c system
stopped working. Same a/c system that went on the fritz
same time last year just before departure on a journey
to yet another foreign land.
– jab
Genuinely outside the box , , ,
Friday, September 5, 2025. It's Frigg's (Freya) day . . . and moderate to strong Northerlies are forecasted to bring cooler conditions in the low 70's and maintain cloudy skies over TulseyTown today. Likely morning rain for some is to depart before noon.
A genuine emptiness, a pure silence is not feasible — either conceptually or in fact. If only because [art] exist in a world furnished with many other things … Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech (in many instances, of complaint or indictment) and an element in a dialogue. – Susan Sontag, “The Aesthetic of Silence” in Maria Popova's Marginalian,
We remember Crazy Horse, the chief of the Oglala band of Lakota, born (surmised) on this day in 1842 near present-day, Rapid City, South Dakota.
It's the birthdate of several artists who broke convention and gave us new perceptions, concepts and meaning.
Jack Kerouac's novel, On The Road, was published today in 1957.
John Cage was born on this date. The avant-garde composer who managed to step outside the bounds of conventional and its concepts of meaningful sound and created new concepts and meaning, was born in 1912 Los Angeles, California.
Werner Herzog turns 83 today. The German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author was born in 1942, Munich, Germany. He almost single handedly reinvented German cinema. Get acquainted, if you haven't, by watching Aguirre, the Wrath of God, if you can find it.
And It's the birthday of Freddie Mercury. The singer/song writer and front man for the band Queen, was born in 1946, Stone Town, Zanzibar [now in Tanzania.
The bright light of confusion . .
Thursday, September 4, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . A cool, cloudy start to the day is forecasted to become sunny and warm in TulseyTown this afternoon. Moderate Easterlies are to clear the skies and bring mid 80's
Gratitude … brings us into presence, and our full presence is perhaps the best offering we can make to our world. – Joanna Macy
Novelist Richard Wright was born on this day in 1908 on a farm near Roxie, Mississippi.
Beyoncé turns 44 today. The multiple Grammy award singer-songwriter and actress was born in 1981, Houston, Texas.
Suddenly last Tuesday a bright light shone. [“That's a joke, son”] After that three hour sycophantic love fest by his cabinet, telecast and youtubed, only three questions remained: Why would the United States need a Congress? What role does the judiciary fill? Both seem more like unnecessary decorations than useful assets. And why would the country need to elect a new boss in 2028? What purpose would it serve? – Garrison Keillor, The Column, 9.3.25
Confusion causes our questions and prompts us to wake up. – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Crazy Wisdom, Shambhala Press, 2001. From this perspective, confusion is a gift, a teacher on The Way, a prompt for our gratitude.
Preface to an ego, Part One
We are born into this world
not unlike the pilot in The Little Prince,
crashing into what might as well be
a wholly barren landscape
for all the light-blasted confusion,
and utterly beyond knowableness.
No wonder our first response is to protest.
Vigorously.
Then to grasp onto the comforting softness
of a much needed food source
until we are sated for the first of many times.
Of many times. Sated enough that we might
begin to look around curiously
at the glitter and sparkling destractions
which will become a habit
and the source of objects
we insist on trying to fit into
mouths, noses, ears, eyes.
All the while learning about
what will become masturbation
and playing with our toes.
—jab