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- Sat Aug 20, 2022 5:49 pm
- Forum: Inspiring Poetry
- Topic: In the Dark — by Pavithra K. Mehta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3937
In the Dark — by Pavithra K. Mehta
In the Dark — by Pavithra K. Mehta tonight thoughts run loose the mind is a zoo and someone has unlocked all the cages. moon, what is it you have done that some nights you must hide your face? starlight has crept into every corner, do you see it? a silver haunting. this is what it looks like when t...
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 5:43 pm
- Forum: Inspiring Poetry
- Topic: Antidotes to Fear of Death — by Rebecca Elson
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4760
Antidotes to Fear of Death — by Rebecca Elson
Rebecca Elson was a Canadian-American poet and astronomer. In the 1990s she was among the first researchers to study images. She passed away at age 39. "A Responsibility to Awe," was published posthumously. It is a volume of Elson's poetry and essays, ranging from her teenage years until ...
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:31 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: You Are Always the Other Person — by David Cain
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1334
You Are Always the Other Person — by David Cain
You might like this or not. David Cain is one of those writer/thinkers who often engages my mind and sometimes my heart. I thought this point of view was fascinating. Imagine that when you die your life is converted into an extremely long, first-person YouTube video, which you may review at your le...
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:16 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Faith Is Different Than Beliefs — by Reb Zalman
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1033
Faith Is Different Than Beliefs — by Reb Zalman
Where there is faith, there are fewer beliefs. We use beliefs to shore up opinions, rather than a relationship with the cosmos. Faith is what we call the relationship with the cosmos. It's different than beliefs. Beliefs would be sort of the candy that comes in a candy wrapper, out of faith. But fa...
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 7:01 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: AMKK Botanical Animation “Story of Flowers”
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1895
AMKK Botanical Animation “Story of Flowers”
This is a beautiful animation. I predict that anyone might love this, as I did.
AMKK Botanical Animation “Story of Flowers”
https://vimeo.com/219961246?embedded=tr ... er=2348491
AMKK Botanical Animation “Story of Flowers”
https://vimeo.com/219961246?embedded=tr ... er=2348491
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:18 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Three States Of Water — by Natureza Gabriel Kram
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1678
Three States Of Water — by Natureza Gabriel Kram
I thought this is a fascinating thought... Imagine that you’ve never been to Earth. You visit first in winter, where someone introduces you to water. From a glass, they pour it out over your hand. You drink. Remarkable. Imagine that you walk outside onto a frozen lake. You’ve never seen this substa...
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:52 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Deeper You Go The More You Will Find — by Eileen Caddy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1095
The Deeper You Go The More You Will Find — by Eileen Caddy
The Deeper You Go The More You Will Find — by Eileen Caddy Be spiritually minded so you are able to see through the outer conditions and situations and understand the cause operating in the unseen realm of the mind. Do this by being very still. Go into the silence, raise your consciousness and allo...
- Sun Jul 17, 2022 5:23 pm
- Forum: Inspiring Poetry
- Topic: Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking — by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3734
Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking — by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Here's the first little bit... On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on earth. Including the insects. Times three. I was rather amazed by this poem and am linking the page on which I discovered it becaus...
- Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:44 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: A Nugget of Kindness — by Stuart M. Perkins
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1041
A Nugget of Kindness — by Stuart M. Perkins
This is another little heart warming story. It is a reminder about little acts of kindness.
A Nugget of Kindness — by Stuart M. Perkins
https://storyshucker.wordpress.com/2022 ... -kindness/
A Nugget of Kindness — by Stuart M. Perkins
https://storyshucker.wordpress.com/2022 ... -kindness/
- Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:33 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Monkey Stories, the Best Kind of Stories — by Snigdha Manickavel
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1015
Monkey Stories, the Best Kind of Stories — by Snigdha Manickavel
This is just an amusingly fine piece of writing. I don't remember when the monkeys first started coming to our house. Possibly, it was while I was away at college. In those days something about the long, hot bus-rides home made me sleepy in a way that I could never shake off completely. At home, I l...
- Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:29 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Family Tree — by Stuart Perkins
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1121
Re: The Family Tree — by Stuart Perkins
Sandy,
I had the same momentary flash of doom. Then I remembered that Stuart never writes 'Bambi' stories. He is notable for heartwarming tales.
I had the same momentary flash of doom. Then I remembered that Stuart never writes 'Bambi' stories. He is notable for heartwarming tales.
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 4:35 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Family Tree — by Stuart Perkins
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1121
The Family Tree — by Stuart Perkins
Here is another heart warming story from Stuart Perkins.
The Family Tree — by Stuart Perkins
https://storyshucker.wordpress.com/2021 ... mily-tree/
The Family Tree — by Stuart Perkins
https://storyshucker.wordpress.com/2021 ... mily-tree/
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 4:32 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: How Animals See Themselves — by Ed Yong
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1801
Re: How Animals See Themselves — by Ed Yong
That was my response too, Sandy. I took the time to actually think about the lives of things I could do without, ticks, mosquitos, rats and mice, poison oak etc.
- Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:32 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: How Animals See Themselves — by Ed Yong
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1801
How Animals See Themselves — by Ed Yong
Nature shows have always prized the dramatic: David Attenborough himself once told me, after filming a series on reptiles and amphibians, frogs “really don’t do very much until they breed, and snakes don’t do very much until they kill.” Such thinking has now become all-consuming, and nature’s drama...
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:04 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Penpa Tang-ing with Neha — by Pavithra K. Mehta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1144
Re: Penpa Tang-ing with Neha — by Pavithra K. Mehta
Here's her latest... 943 — by Pavithra K. Mehta To be indiscriminately captivated means to be at home anywhere/everywhere/nowhere. Why fault this faculty? Single-mindedness is so often misapplied. Would she tell the bumblebee not to be so flighty? Would she command the butterfly to be less fickle? ...
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:31 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Penpa Tang-ing with Neha — by Pavithra K. Mehta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1144
Penpa Tang-ing with Neha — by Pavithra K. Mehta
Pavithra is one of my very favorite poet/writers. After a hiatus of some years she is once again posting almost daily. I'd like to introduce you all to her work with this one recent little story. Neha is the recently-turned-eight-year-old across the street. Every encounter with her is an edifying e...
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 6:46 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Listening And The Crisis Of Inattention — an interview
- Replies: 0
- Views: 899
Listening And The Crisis Of Inattention — an interview
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee: Sounds Wild and Broken is a remarkably comprehensive book exploring the history and evolution of sound, the relationships embedded within sound, and the threat to much of the living world’s sonic diversity and experience due to the mass extinction of sound-generating species. ...
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 6:30 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Age of Stolen Salt — by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Replies: 0
- Views: 913
The Age of Stolen Salt — by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Salt is an ancestor. Older than ocean, old as stars. Salt flows through your saltwater body even now like blood, as blood. Salt is nonnegotiable, necessary for the working of every single cell. Salt is time. Evidence of how long since evaporation. Resident time of water in basins. Measured future f...
- Tue Jun 14, 2022 9:31 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Turning Survival Inside Out — by Kerri Lake
- Replies: 0
- Views: 861
Turning Survival Inside Out — by Kerri Lake
You know how people will lament when they say, “Time to get back to reality,” or “…yeah, but that’s not how the real world works”? What is the real world? Who suggested that toil, despair and various flavors of enslavement are what’s “real”? That despair distills from a relationship with survival. ...
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 5:36 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Intelligence behind the universe
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7172
Re: Intelligence behind the universe
My thought about atheists: Most kids go through a phase during which they think they are smarter than their parents. Atheists are simply going through a phase when they think they are smarter than God. :lol: Any time I've been snookered into the 'atheist' debate my default logic is this. "Have...
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 5:25 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Uplifting Music
- Replies: 175
- Views: 119285
Re: Uplifting Music
Do you sing Welles? In the shower. Actually I did as a kid in church choir. I tried out for the National Cathedral Choir. With a lot of training I might have made it but my voice at 13 was a little lower than they wished. Oh well. I intend to be a musician somewhere along in my mansion experiences....
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:26 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Ask the Teachers: Is happiness really the central goal of Buddhist practice?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1061
Ask the Teachers: Is happiness really the central goal of Buddhist practice?
Question: Buddhist teachers, including the Dalai Lama, often speak of happiness as a goal (if not the goal) of Buddhist practice. I don’t begrudge anyone happiness, but making it so central to spiritual life feels self-serving. Am I misunderstanding what’s meant by “happiness”? Anushka Fernandopull...
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:18 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Uplifting Music
- Replies: 175
- Views: 119285
Re: Uplifting Music
I have two offerings. I spent fifteen years involved in the world of a cappella music, producing radio programs that went around the world, judging international competitions etc. In my opinion Pentatonix's "Hallelujah" is one of the most amazing pieces ever recorded. I'm also including a...
- Wed Jun 01, 2022 4:17 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Opening To Greater Life — by Thomas Berry
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1010
Opening To Greater Life — by Thomas Berry
Tell the [future generations] that something new is happening, a new vision, a new energy, a new sacred story is coming into being in the transition from one era to another. Tell them in the darkness of this time, a vast transformation is occurring in the depths of human consciousness, which is lea...
- Tue May 24, 2022 6:38 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: How to Get the Magic Back — by David Cain
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1021
How to Get the Magic Back — by David Cain
Each weekend of the summer I try to take a long bike ride to some part of the city I’ve never been to. I do this for three reasons. It’s several hours of exercise that doesn’t feel like exercise. It also gets me out doing and seeing things, which makes me feel like I’ve used the day well. The third...