In the back of my mind I was still mulling over the metaphoric aspects of the previous post on “Highlights and Shadows” when I listened this morning to Frank Bruni on Margaret Hoover’s “Firing Line” show where he solidified my thoughts on how we view our political and ideological extremism. While the skilled artist worksContinue reading “Pendulum Swings”
Category Archives: Reality
Highlights and Shadows
As a longtime artist, I know my way around tools of the trade: from drawings with pencils/pens/charcoal to painting with watercolor, acrylics and oil. In college I was primarily a woodworker with woodcuts and sculpture, but I leaned toward functionality over pure aesthetics, which meant more of a useful framed construction and practical creations, likeContinue reading “Highlights and Shadows”
Quasars
“A quasar (/ˈkweɪzɑːr/ KWAY-zar) is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN). It is sometimes known as a quasi-stellar object, abbreviated QSO. The emission from an AGN is powered by a supermassive black hole with a mass ranging from millions to tens of billions of solar masses, surrounded by a gaseous accretion disc. Gas inContinue reading “Quasars”
Surviving the Storm
Evidently my intuitive energy-awareness is still able to pick up similar inputs to what Lee Harris is intuiting. He covers much of the same ‘flushing out the old energies’ aspects that I mentioned in my previous post, but also gives it broader context for you to consider so perhaps it might make more sense toContinue reading “Surviving the Storm”
Expectations and Disappointments
Hey, don’t we all have certain expectations on all aspects of our lives, and then feel the subsequent disappointments that naturally accompany those unmet expectations whether they were realistic or not? Maybe we expected our lives to turn out as some fantasized version of happiness and prosperity, but it just didn’t happen for us. OrContinue reading “Expectations and Disappointments”
Memory As Such
If I could only remember everything I’ve read throughout my life, what wisdom I could spout now. Unfortunately my memory spits and sputters like an asthmatic lawnmower engine proving it has just enough spark to announce important potential to the situation at hand, but not enough cranking power to keep the entire thought moving forwardContinue reading “Memory As Such”
They DO Exist!
“They DO Exist!” For those familiar with holiday commercials that sounds like the Santa Claus/M&M’s Christmas Eve meet up by the fireplace and tree. For me, I’ve been working at this ‘other dimensions exist’ realization for at least three decades; plus I’ve also read the book mentioned above, so I was not a newbie onContinue reading “They DO Exist!”
Jumping Time
The first time it happened, I was unsure of what had actually occurred. The next time it happened I was, “Come on, this can’t really be happening.” The third time it happened I knew it was real and I’d have to make a change or I could never rely on what I was seeing. OverContinue reading “Jumping Time”
Freedom of Response
If you haven’t yet read Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning, I suggest you soon do so. Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist whose entire family was taken and eventually deported to Auschwitz, the World War II German prisoner of war labor camp for captured Jews. He was one of the few who survived afterContinue reading “Freedom of Response”
Sitting in Your Soul
NICABM (National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine) offers Facebook image blurbs to encourage healthy living and enhanced mental resilience; plus occasionally offering online classes and speaker summits that I’ve participated in previously. Today’s image above is focused on the importance of MINDFULNESS with the Ram Dass quote: “When you are down hereContinue reading “Sitting in Your Soul”
Remember the Mountains and Valleys
“When you start to feel like things could have been better this yearRemember the mountains and valleys that got you here They are not accidents and those moments weren’t in vain.You are not the same You have grown and you are growing.You are breathing , you are living.You are wrapped in EndlessBoundlessGraceAnd things will getContinue reading “Remember the Mountains and Valleys”
Acknowledging Ourselves
We exist. We ARE. We live and die, and somewhere in-between the two, we learn. WHAT we learn depends on so many factors such as our living environments, our support teams on earth and beyond who protect us and nurture our growth, and that soul spark within us that drives us forward toward some unseenContinue reading “Acknowledging Ourselves”
FINDING YOUR TRUTH 