I worry about women. All of us. My sister’s daughters. My friends and their daughters. The little girls in every country of the world. Someone once said that if anyone looked at the planet from a distance, one of their first questions would be, “Why are you hurting the women? Is there a war...
Posts Tagged ‘ fears ’
The Louisiana Gulf
The difference between taking action and sending positive thoughts is a bit confusing to me. But here I am, for as many days as I’ve been hearing about the Gulf oil disaster, trying to focus positive thoughts on the situation and the people and wildlife of that great area. When push comes to shove,...
Oil spills dinosaurs
Fossil fuels. Old ideas of how to live in this culture, like fossils, have the power of big engines, turbines, horsepower and power to the enth degree. The famous but extinct dinosaurs are now liquid petroleum. Or if that’s not quite the case, it is close. How dinosaurs could spill all over the oceans,...
Holding patterns
Isn’t it funny how memories bring on other memories? Sometimes they seem unrelated, but they work together like flint and steel, like the memory of beauty that their absence brings.
bigger than yourself
This won’t be very profound. The truth is that I just realized how you can have something in your life that is bigger than yourself and how this can make you do better and more – and not let fear stop you. You’re thinking, ‘You’re only just getting this?’ But I’m writing that some...
Humbled by stress
The DN was offline for two days on account of stress. It was suggested by one friend that we develop a neurosis meter. This could be used in many ways. It could be an early warning system, or if the DN Meter indicates high stress levels it could mean that others should take note...
the heart map home
If you don’t know where you belong but have a sense of belonging, as I do, then is that enough of a place? I’m sometimes lost and looking for a community while all around it seems that there are people I know with families and children and grandchildren or if not that then places...
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