Hello All Around 40 AD “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Jesus, Gospel of Matthew (22:39) + 1,579 years August 20, 1619 The first captured members of the native Kongo and Ndongo kingdoms were brought to shore as slaves in Jamestown, Virginia + 157 more years July 4th, 1776 We hold these truths to be … Read more
Hello AllHappy Friday There is a King, who is aware of every mask you put on.Rumi The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask. Agatha Christie To clothe the fiery thoughtIn simple words succeeds.For still the craft of genius isTo mask a king in weeds.Ralph Waldo Emerson There comes a time, … Read more
Hello AllHappy Friday For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds has come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.” … Read more
Hello AllHappy Friday To be or not to bee . . . That is the question. To be hateful or to be loving. To be fearful or to be calm. To be helpful or to be difficult. To be a force for the light or the dark. To bee the sting or bee the honey. To … Read more
Hello AllHappy Friday May the road rise to meet you and the wind be always at your back . . . Blessings to all those celebrating May Day, the first day of May. May Day is usually a day of celebration and mirth in many parts of the world. May 1st on the Irish calendar is … Read more
Hello AllHappy Friday Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God. While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away. Every bird will follow it’s specie. Now that You live here in my chest, anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. – … Read more
Hello AllHappy Friday ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—And sings the tune without the words—And never stops—at all— – Emily Dickinson The Robins are back. The birds are back . . . Spring has sprung. Almost 20 years ago, when I was first ‘waking Up’, a bright red-breasted robin was one of the … Read more
Hello AllHappy Friday! “We humans, as a species, are interested in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Would not a good beginning to that be improved communication with terrestrial intelligence, with other human beings of different cultures and languages, with the great apes, with the dolphins, but particularly with those intelligent masters of the deep, the great … Read more
Hello AllHappy Friday! “The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.” Dante, The Divine Comedy Humans have a tendency to at times look at life skewed. We hesitate to look at things straight on and change them or turn them sideways or upside down. I think for some they want to bring drama … Read more
Hello AllHappy Friday! Time does fly – it certainly doesn’t walk. Time ‘travels’ with space and space ‘travels’ with time. Our top scientists and physicists now say we travel through ‘space-time’. Fifty years ago tomorrow, two men, with tens of thousands of support personnel behind them, traveled through space-time to the moon and then walked on the moon. Human … Read more